Reply To: Affiliate traffic just vanished again

[hankroot]

Technically, from what I see, Yeah, I’m seeing the same kind of garbage on a couple accounts. When it’s “ranking-ish but clicks died,” I usually stop trusting GSC right away and look at what’s actually showing on the SERP. Half the time it’s some feature crowding the page out, weird snippet changes, or Google deciding to test 6 different layouts for the same query. Super annoying, but not always a real drop. That said, if it was stable and then just fell off a cliff this week, I’d still check whether the page got pushed below the fold on mobile. Seen that happen and GSC makes it look way more dramatic than it is. Google really does…