Reply To: Traffic dead since the last update?

Usually, honestly, yeah, I’m seeing the same kind of thing on a couple properties. Not the dramatic “everything’s dead forever” vibe, more like Google just quietly turned the tap off and left the pages sitting there. What’s annoying is there’s no clean pattern. Same setup, same links, same garbage that was working last month, and then suddenly it’s just flat. I’ve had parasite pages hold for a bit and then fall off a cliff without any obvious on-site change, which makes me think it’s more footprint-level than page-level. I wouldn’t get too comfortable blaming normal churn either. When it’s one page, sure. When multiple sites or multiple sections all go weird around the same time, that usually means the method got less sticky, not that you got “unlucky.” I’m still checking logs and a couple of link paths, but honestly I’m not seeing the usual smoking gun either. Just feels like one of those updates where they tightened the screws on junk and didn’t bother making it readable. Could be wrong though.