Reply To: Traffic tanked after latest update, anyone else?

[hankroot]

Yeah, I’d still put Google way ahead of “my WordPress broke itself” here. If it was plugin/hosting weirdness, I’d expect some uglier signs, not just a clean traffic slide. Broken pages, crawl errors, indexing gaps, that sort of thing. The fact that some posts are still indexed but just moved around is pretty classic Google nonsense lately. That said, I wouldn’t completely ignore the site setup either. Cheap hosting plus Yoast plus cache plus “a couple others” is exactly the kind of setup where something dumb can quietly happen. I’ve seen a cache plugin serving stale crap, canonicals getting weird, even noindex stuff showing up where it shouldn’t. Not common, but enough to check. What I’d look at first is: – impressions vs clicks in Search Console – whether the whole site dropped or just certain sections – if the homepage got hit too – whether the pages are still indexed but ranking lower If impressions are down, that’s usually not a plugin issue. If impressions are stable and clicks died, then maybe the snippets or SERP layout got worse. Honestly though, “pages that used to get clicks are now buried somewhere I can’t even find” sounds like update fallout more than anything you did. Google’s been doing that annoying random shuffle thing a lot.