Reply To: Weird ranking drops on WordPress sites

Yeah, I’d still be suspicious of the WP side before I went full “Google update” on it. That bounce-back-for-a-bit thing is the part that bugs me. Feels way more like inconsistent output or some plugin/cache nonsense than a clean ranking loss. I’ve had pages look fine in GSC and still be serving slightly different crap depending on request, and Google doesn’t seem to love that at all. If it were me I’d be checking the raw HTML a few times on the same URL, not just once. To be fair, And not just the obvious stuff either — I mean canonicals, titles, maybe even some weird related-posts or schema output changing around. Could still be Google being flaky, obviously. But half the time it’s some stupid little WP thing hiding in plain sight.