Reply To: Traffic tanked after a clean-up

[adrian_knox]

In my opinion, yeah, I’d be a lot more suspicious of the cleanup than “Google woke up angry for no reason.” If you pulled a bunch of junk pages at once, especially with internal link changes, you can absolutely mess with how the money pages get seen for a bit. Doesn’t mean you’re doomed, but I wouldn’t hand-wave it as pure coincidence either. That page 2 → gone → back → gone thing is the kind of garbage I’ve seen when the site’s signals got shifted around too much. Annoying as hell, but not exactly rare. I’d leave it alone for a while and stop making little tweaks every day.