Reply To: Google update or just my site acting up?

Honestly, Honestly, yeah, I’d still be looking at the boring stuff first before blaming an update. If GSC is mostly flat and it’s just a bunch of pages that stopped moving, that usually feels more like something on-site than some giant Google event. Kind of feels like I’ve had drops that looked “algorithmic” and it ended up being dumb stuff like a template change, internal links getting stripped, or one section getting messed up by canonicals. Super annoying, because it *looks* like a broad hit. If impressions are still there but clicks died, I’d be side-eyeing snippets / SERP junk more than anything. If impressions fell too, then yeah, maybe something actually shifted. I dunno, I’ve been burned enough times chasing “updates” when it was just my own site acting up. Google loves the drama, but sometimes it’s just us.