Google quietly dropped 2 of my indexed blog pages this week, no reason given
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Two of my blog posts flipped from "Submitted and indexed" to "Crawled, currently not indexed" this week. No edits, no redirects, nothing changed on my end.
I went through everything GSC actually exposes: robots meta says index,follow, the canonical points to itself, HTTP status is 200. Technically clean by every check available. Google indexed them once, then quietly pulled them back out, with no error and no explanation anywhere in Search Console.
Has anyone tracked a previously indexed page getting pulled like this down to an actual cause, or is it just an authority or quality signal that never shows up in the tooling?
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The clean technical audit and the drop happening anyway is the part that stands out. If GSC has nothing to show, this is probably not a directives problem.
Worth checking rather than assuming: Google indexes small sites provisionally on early signals, URL structure, a handful of first visits or links, and if nothing reinforces that within a window some pages get quietly walked back to crawled not indexed with no page level fault at all. It looks like a penalty. It is more likely a decision that the initial promise never got backed up.
I would check whether either page picked up an external link, a mention, or repeat direct traffic in the days right before it flipped. If the answer is nothing on both, that absence is probably closer to the actual cause than anything Search Console will ever show you.