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# General information
Google started triaging the web into 3 basic hierarchies – minutes, hours, days and weeks.
If you go to GSC > Performance > Pages with the most clicks (default view)
The top clicked pages will have been indexed most recently even if you didn’t make many changes
The indexing budget myth that Google doesnt want to waste resources is partially true. The crawl budget is a fallacy. Google cannot triag crawling – its mission is to crawl every page to find every URL – and it doesnt care with 1 exception: NoIndex pages. Even penalized pages are crawled.
Indexing – which isn’t on a budget – comes down to authority – which means traffic, not just backlinks. In fact you dont need backlinks to have authority. IF the page gets >5 clicks over 30 days, it will be indexed per 30-60 days.
The main driver is the filesize check and if the file has changed more than an [unknown] threshold since the last indexation, regardless of how often the page is crawled
# The content quality myth
This is easy to call a myth because testign content quality is the easiest test to run. Instead of operating on theories, guesses, observations:
# Please test the Content Quality Myth
Take a page that ranks from a site WAY outside your topical authority in frist place in a HIGHLY competitive niche and slug:
Example /seo or /content or /marketing or /ai
Paste the conent to a site < 30 DA
Do you rank ? Do you get indexed?
Take a page that you cannot get indexed – find a friend with a domain WITH topical authority, with <30 DA and ask them to publish it
It will get indexed and may even rqank
Happy to help with the experiment
