Reply To: Weird traffic drop after plugin update?

[adrian_knox]

Yeah, I’d still put money on the update before I’d start blaming Google outright. I’ve seen that same “not dead, just weird” pattern a few times, and it usually ends up being something dumb like output/cache mismatch or a plugin changing the page source in a way nobody notices until traffic starts acting drunk. The random posts getting clicks part is what makes me think crawl/output got nudged somehow, not just a normal ranking wobble. If you can, roll back the last plugin update and clear the cache/CDN stuff after. Don’t change five other things at once or you’ll never know what fixed it. If it settles within a day or two, that’s your answer. If not, then yeah, start looking at hosting or anything injecting stuff into the templates From my experience,. Also, if you updated more than one plugin, that’s the annoying part —…