To be fair, yeah, I’d still check the SERP junk first before assuming the site got hit hard. I’ve had a couple of those “everything looks fine” weeks and then it turns out Google just shoved a bunch of garbage above me or rewrote the snippet into nonsense. CTR falls off a cliff and GSC makes it look way less dramatic than it is. If it’s a whole site, okay, different story. But more often it’s just a few pages or query groups getting kneecapped and it *feels* like the whole thing died. Google loves that little trick. I’d look at: – clicks vs impressions – which pages actually dropped – mobile vs desktop – whether titles/snippets got mangled If impressions are still there and clicks are down, it’s usually SERP trash. If impressions dropped too, then yeah, probably something else going on.
ToolDecision
Tools, compared and explained
ToolDecision
Tools, compared and explained