Reply To: Traffic tanked after fixing my site

[meloncrash]

Yeah, I’ve had that happen too. Clean up a site and suddenly it feels like Google goes “oh cool, let’s punish this guy for trying.” Could be coincidence, could be the site was already hanging by a thread and the changes just lined up with the drop. Still annoying as hell either way. I’ve definitely seen junky old posts survive while the “better” ones just sit there doing nothing, so I wouldn’t assume the cleanup itself fixed or broke anything.