May 19, 2026 at 7:13 am
#4424
Participant
In my opinion, yeah, I wouldn’t trust GSC enough to just shrug it off either, but a cliff drop usually isn’t *only* “Google being weird.” If it happened right after the update, I’d be looking for the dumb stuff first — pages deindexed, canonicals flipping, internal links broken, crawl rate changed, whatever. Google loves to make the charts look like garbage on top of an actual problem, which is always fun. In my opinion,