Reply To: Google update nuked my affiliate traffic again

[Den]

Yeah, seems to be the same story for a lot of affiliate stuff right now. I’d still be careful with the “Google just hates affiliate sites” take though — sometimes it’s that, sometimes it’s a sitewide quality hit, sometimes it’s just one of those ugly re-evaluations and the winners/losers look random as hell. The old junk post surviving while the money pages get clipped is annoying but not exactly rare. If nothing changed on your end, I’d be looking at what got lifted, not just what dropped. Search Console usually makes it look more dramatic than it is, but not always. And yeah, the “just improve content” line gets old fast. Half the time it’s just people repeating themselves cause they don’t actually know what got hit.