Reply To: Traffic dropped hard after this update

Interesting take. Okay then. Yeah, that “junk pages still hanging on while the actual money pages get smacked” thing is depressingly familiar. I wouldn’t assume it’s just a normal wobble if it was a proper cliff drop though. Google loves doing that thing where the site looks half-dead, but the wrong half survives. Super reassuring, as always. If it were me, I’d be looking at whether the hit lines up with any crawl/indexing weirdness or if it’s more of a site-wide reweight. If the pages are still getting crawled but just aren’t holding positions, that’s one story. If they’ve basically stopped getting any love at all, that’s a different headache. And yeah, I’d avoid the classic “let’s rewrite everything at 1am” move. Been there. Usually just makes you feel productive while making the mess worse.