Reply To: Traffic tanked after latest update, anyone else?

Yeah, I’d be looking at GSC before blaming the plugins. If impressions are down too, that’s usually not “Yoast did it” territory. If clicks dropped but impressions are still there, then it’s more likely your snippets got pushed down or the SERP got uglier. Cheap hosting can absolutely cause dumb stuff, but I’ve seen way too many of these “clean drop after update” situations where it was just Google reshuffling garbage around again. Annoying as hell, but pretty normal lately. That said, I wouldn’t totally ignore the WP side. Cache plugins and stale pages have burned me before. Not often, but enough that I still check: – homepage and a few key URLs in Search Console – crawl stats / server errors – noindex/canonical nonsense – whether the affected pages are still getting crawled If it’s only a few posts and the rest of the site is okay, that’s one thing. If the whole thing got hit, I’d be side-eyeing Google first. And yeah, “just improve content” is the usual lazy answer people throw out when they don’t know.