Reply To: Weird traffic drop after plugin update?

Realistically, yeah, I’d be looking at the plugin change first, not Google. That “some pages tank, random posts start getting clicks” pattern usually smells like something changed in crawl/render/output, not a clean ranking drop. I’ve seen it from cache weirdness, canonicals getting rewritten, sitemap junk, and one plugin quietly messing with internal links or noindex stuff. If it was me, I’d check: – whether the updated plugins changed page source at all – cache/CDN purge status – Search Console coverage/crawl stats – server logs if you’ve got them – whether those “random posts” are just the only ones still getting properly discovered Could still be hosting if the server got slower or started throwing odd responses, but I wouldn’t jump there before checking what the site is actually serving. Google being Google is always the easy answer, but half the time it’s your own stack stepping on a rake. At least from what I’ve seen.