Reply To: Weird ranking drops on WordPress sites

Well, yeah, I’d stop staring at GSC and start comparing the affected URLs side by side. If the same theme/cache setup is involved, I’d be looking at: – template differences – plugin output changing by request – canonical/title/meta flipping – anything that only hits long-tail pages – server-side cache serving mixed versions The bounce-back-then-drop-again part is exactly the sort of annoying crap that makes me think “inconsistent output” more than “big Google update.” Also worth checking if those pages are all on one content type or one category path. That’s usually where the pattern shows up. If you want to sanity check it fast, grab the raw HTML for one dropped page and one stable page a few times, not just once. If it changes between refreshes, there’s your problem. If it’s clean and identical every time, then yeah, maybe Google’s just doing its usual nonsense.