Reply To: Traffic tanked after a plugin update?

I mean, okay then. Yeah, I’d be looking at the plugin first too. Google loves getting blamed for everything like it’s the neighborhood drunk, but cache/SEO plugin updates have absolutely caused nonsense for me before. I’ve seen one update quietly mess with canonicals and another one spit out stale cached pages to bots while the site looked totally normal. Fun times. If the drop lined up right after the update, that’s not something I’d just shrug off. That’s how I look at it.