Reply To: Traffic dead since the last update?

Realistically, yeah, I’m leaning toward “quiet kneecap” more than a clean hit too. I’ve seen that pattern a few times now where nothing dramatic changes in the site itself, but the logs start looking uglier and impressions/clicks just drift off a cliff. That’s the annoying part — no obvious manual action, no giant index wipe, just Google getting stingier for no clear reason. If it’s the parasite pages, I wouldn’t be shocked if they got devalued a bit without any nice neat message attached. Google’s been doing that a lot lately. Not a penalty in the old sense, just less trust, less visibility, less everything. Wouldn’t surprise me if some of it’s SERP churn too. Feels like every update now just adds more junk above the actual result and then everyone pretends the click loss is “normal.” Sure.