Reply To: Google update or just my site acting up?

[adrian_knox]

Yeah, I’d still be pretty hesitant to call it “an update” from just that. If GSC isn’t showing some obvious mess and it’s more like pages just stopped *moving*, I’d be looking at page-level stuff first. Google loves making it look like some big algo event when it’s really a template issue, internal links shifting, canonicals getting weird, or just SERP junk pushing you down. That said, if it’s across a bunch of unrelated pages and the timing’s ugly, sure, could be Google being Google. Just don’t let that be the first assumption every time traffic dips. Seen too many people chase phantom updates while their own site was quietly broken. Just my experience.