Reply To: Traffic tanked after a clean-up

To be fair, sure. Yeah, that “Google’s punishing me for cleaning my room” thing is annoyingly familiar. Half the time it’s not even the prune itself, it’s the weird little support stuff you didn’t think mattered until it’s gone. Then the money pages just sit there like dead fish. I’d be suspicious of anything that changed internal paths or took away a bunch of contextual links. Google loves pretending it’s smarter than that, but it’s usually just reacting to the mess you made. Could be wrong though. Sure.