Reply To: Weird ranking drops this week?

[hankroot]

Yeah, I’d be looking at the plugin update first before I start blaming “the update” or whatever Google’s doing this week. We’ve had that happen on a couple affiliate sites where a plugin change messed with canonicals / internal links and GSC looked like a crime scene for a few days. From my experience, Could be nothing, could be the update quietly screwing something up. Check the obvious stuff before chasing ghosts. In my opinion,