Reply To: Traffic dropped again after indexing fix?

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pixelwitch
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Yeah, that’s been happening to me too, and it’s hard not to side-eye it. The annoying part is the timing always looks suspicious as hell. You clean stuff up, Google finally notices, then traffic does this stupid little dip like it’s “re-evaluating” the page or whatever. Sometimes it bounces back, sometimes it never really does. That’s the part people hand-wave away way too easily. And Den’s not wrong that sometimes the page was already weak, but come on — Google definitely has this habit of making a “fix” look like the cause of the problem when it’s really…