Reply To: Google keeps nuking my pages again

Honestly, Yeah, “random” is probably not the right word, but it sure feels like it when you watch a page get kneecapped for no obvious reason. I’ve had the same thing happen with affiliate pages that were doing fine, then one crawl/update cycle later they’re just dead weight. Usually it’s not some dramatic penalty either, more like Google quietly deciding the page isn’t worth shit anymore. Which is honestly worse. What I keep seeing is the weaker pages in a cluster get hit first. Same template, same intent, one page gets enough signals to hang on and the others just slide out. And once they start losing crawl attention, good luck getting them back without changing something real, not just moving a few words around. Also, I wouldn’t trust GSC too much when this happens. It’ll look “fine” right up until it isn’t. Logs tell a uglier story most of the time Realistically,. If your pages were holding steady and then vanished, I’d be looking at: – crawl frequency dropping first – internal links getting thinner – pages overlapping too much – content looking too samey across the site – some dumb canonical or rendering issue But yeah, Google’s been extra annoying lately. Same old…