Reply To: Anyone else losing rankings again?

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axelrowan
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Honestly, Yeah, I’m seeing some of that too. Not every drop is “content quality,” despite what the usual SEO parrots keep chanting. If the pages were stable for months and then fell off a cliff with no real change, I’d be looking at crawl/indexing weirdness first, or some template/plugin thing that quietly changed rendering. Google’s been extra flaky lately with stuff that looks fine in Search Console but clearly isn’t being treated the same way in the index. Also wouldn’t trust the “nothing changed” part completely — sometimes a plugin update, canonical shift, internal link change, or even a weird noindex/robots hiccup gets missed because it’s buried in some theme function nobody remembers touching. I’ve had affiliate pages do this before where the content was basically the same, but Google just stopped giving them the same crawl attention after a broader shuffle. Usually not a pure…