Reply To: Weird ranking drops on WordPress sites

[Pike]

To be fair, yeah, I’d still lean site-side first too. That “comes back for two days then dies again” pattern is exactly the kind of annoying crap I’ve seen from cache/plugin weirdness, not some clean Google hit. If it were me I’d be comparing the dropped URLs against a couple stable ones and checking if anything’s changing in the HTML between requests. Titles/canonicals flipping around is the sort of thing that’ll make Google act drunk pretty fast.