Reply To: Traffic tanked after yesterday’s update?

Yeah, I’ve seen that a few times now. Usually it’s not “traffic tanked” so much as Google doing one of its little rearrange-the-furniture games overnight. The weird part is the money pages disappearing while GSC still looks half-alive. That’s the bit that makes me suspicious it’s not just normal fluctuation. If you’ve been changing plugins lately, I’d check for crawl/index weirdness first before blaming the AI stuff. I’ve had one site get hit because a caching plugin update started serving junk to bots only. Took way too long to notice because the front end looked fine.