Reply To: Affiliate traffic just vanished again

Honestly, honestly, Yeah, same crap here. One of mine didn’t “drop” so much as get kneecapped overnight — clicks just vanished while the page is still sitting there pretending everything’s normal. I’d trust the SERP more than GSC right now. GSC’s been drunk for a while, and half the time it’s just showing you noise while Google shuffles layouts, snippets, and whatever other garbage they’re testing this week. If it’s affiliate, I’d check whether the page got shoved under a bunch of junk above the fold on mobile, or if the snippet changed and killed CTR. Seen that happen more than once. Also wouldn’t rule out intent shift, which is Google-speak for “your page is still indexed but we’d rather show something else.” Mason’s “it’s kinda just snippets” thing is usually too neat, but honestly this time it might actually be that. Still worth checking whether it’s only one page or the whole cluster, cause if it’s the whole money section then yeah, that’s a different headache. From what I see,