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by sharmi 1108 days ago
I have been watching Google Search Console closely for little over a year now due to several projects I have on it and have observed similar issues.

These patterns predate the GPT3 and ChatGPT changes.

Patterns I have seen: 1. New site does not get indexed, though it satisfies all of Google's requirements. 2. Old sites slowly lose pages from it's index. Sometimes pages get added again but the net change is always negative. 3. New pages added to existing sites also do not seem to be indexed.

OTOH, if there are indexing issues that Google warns about, you fix it and mark it as fixed in Google, those get verified around 2 weeks later and has a sizeable impact on impressions.