Reply To: Google update nuked my affiliate traffic again

Realistically, yeah, that “random old posts survive, money pages get clipped” pattern is exactly why I don’t trust the usual content fluff. If nothing changed on the site, I’d be looking at crawl/index signals before I’d start rewriting pages for the 5th time. Sometimes it’s not even content quality in the normal sense — it’s Google deciding certain templates, internal links, or whole page types aren’t worth the crawl anymore. Then you get that weird half-dead state where junk stays indexed forever and the pages you actually care about get shoved down. I’ve seen this a bunch lately on affiliate stuff. Not a clean penalty, just a slow re-sorting that feels like a penalty. Which is somehow worse. If you’ve got logs, check whether the dropped pages are still getting crawled at the same rate. A lot of times the answer is no, and…