Reply To: Weird ranking drops on WordPress sites

Well, yeah, I’d still lean site-side on this too. If the HTML is even slightly different between hits, that’s enough to make Google act weird. I’ve seen it with caching/plugins where the page looks “fine” in browser but the output isn’t actually stable. I’d check the same URL a few times with and without cache, and compare the source. If nothing’s changing there, then yeah, it gets murkier. But I wouldn’t jump to “Google just did Google things” yet.