Reply To: Traffic dropped after fixing technical SEO?

Personally, yeah, I’ve seen it. Usually right after a cleanup too, which is the fun part. If it was a bunch of technical changes at once, I wouldn’t even assume it’s “the fix” yet. Google’s just weird about reprocessing stuff, and sometimes traffic dips while it shuffles everything around. But if you touched canonicals, internal links, noindex, redirects, or pagination, I’d be a lot less relaxed about it. Honestly the first thing I’d check is whether the pages that dropped are the ones you “improved” or if it’s the whole site just wobbling. Sitewide wobble I’d mostly wait on. Specific page drops after cleanup? Yeah, that usually means something got knocked loose.