Reply To: Weird traffic drop after plugin update

Yeah, I’d still suspect the plugin update before I’d blame Google straight away. I’ve seen updates do some stupid stuff where nothing *looks* broken until you check source / logs / Search Console and realize a bunch of pages are suddenly doing something dumb in the background. Canonicals getting messed with, noindex sneaking in, cached junk sticking around, that kind of crap. If it was a clean drop right after the update, I’d probably roll back one plugin at a time and see what changes. The “Google just decided to nuke me” theory is always popular, but half the time it’s some stupid plugin conflict nobody bothered to test properly.