SEO Recap covering June 20, 2026

Daily summary of what matters in SEO, GEO, AEO, and AI search generated with Claude Code (beware of hallucinations)

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Technical SEO

Deindexing Reports Persist as Google Says It Sees Nothing Unusual
Source: Search Engine Journal

• Reports of pages dropping from Google's index have run from late April into June, with many landing in "crawled, currently not indexed" status without manual actions or crawl errors; John Mueller calls the movement ordinary.
• Glenn Gabe's investigation of one site traced its full drop to a manual action that only surfaced later, showing early absence doesn't rule out a penalty.
• Google's Data Anomalies page documents a logging error that inflated impressions from May 2025 to late April 2026; the fix shows up as a drop, so clicks are the steadier signal and historical data won't be restored.
• The author urges sorting symptoms into causes (real deindexing, ranking loss, canonical consolidation, technical blocking, or reporting artifact) using URL Inspection before acting.
• Acting prematurely, adding noindex, restructuring URLs, or filing emergency tickets, can turn a temporary or imaginary problem into a permanent loss.