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Simple SEO Workshop Example : Traffic = Authority = Re-Indexation Priority
Posted by on December 4, 2025 at 9:42 pmWhat does this workshop experiment show?
The rate at which your pages are re-indexed. There are a lot of stories/conjecture about Crawl Frequency/budgets, about optimizing for it etc. There's a simple rule of thumb that shows:
- Pages with traffic = Higher Indexing frequency (without edits)
- Pages with no traffic = Lower Indexing frequency (even with edits)
There are three reports that demonstrate this cleanly
Check the last index date of most clicked pages
Simple Test to show that Organic Traffic = Authority, that Authority = Indexing Prioritizing. Any SEO with traffic can do this:
- Open the
Performance Reportin GSC - Inspect the top ten pages with clicks (the default list order)
The index date will most likely be within the last week.
Prove the Corollary
Now – to test the corollary. Reverse the Report Sort Order.
The pages with the least clicks and rank position – will have the longest dates
Want to find out the leading/lagging date for your domain's particular topical authority DNA footprint?
Go to
Pages > Information about Indexed pages.Note: The information report is about 7 days delayed.
The highest trafficked pages = most recent.
Flip the report – the least trafficked pages = the longest lag. The lag of the last pages to today = your authority indexation efficiency lag score.
Questions: Conclusion & Test Confirmation
- Pages with more backlinks and no traffic
- Did they get indexed more frequntly?
- Does this mean pages with backlinks and no traffic have authority?
- Did they get indexed more frequntly?
- Does this firmly lock in the correlation between a page having traffic and indexing?
- And does the reverse hold true?
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1 Reply
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I’m seeing a partial equation in my head
“Flip the report – the least trafficked pages = the longest lag. The lag of the last pages to today = your authority indexation efficiency lag score.”
What are you measuring this in? Are you measuring this in days?
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This is beautiful.
Art if you will.
The bulk of my SEO efforts for customers is close to exactly this:
1. find pages and keywords we can rank for
2. optimize the page content for the keywords we want to and can rank for
3. acquire merited links, using the keyword we decided on, in the anchor text, from our network.In the words of the great Matt Diamante: “Don’t tell Google I told you so, because I will get in trouble for this.”
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So far, only my home page has backlinks to it, so maybe I’m not qualified for this test.
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VERY interesting experiment! I’ve often thought that traffic can’t JUST be the byproduct of authority (ranking), but more of a symbiotic relationship. Like you can’t really have one without the other.
Great share you legend u/weblinkr 👌🏻
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