Reply To: Traffic dead since the last update?

[Mason]

Usually, yeah, same story here on a couple throwaway properties. Not the clean “boom, manual hit” kind of thing either — just that ugly slow choke where stuff was moving fine and then suddenly it isn’t. What’s annoying is the usual tells are all over the place. Crawl still comes in, pages still index, but the actual traffic is flat as hell. One of mine had the parasite pages holding for weeks and then after this last wobble they just stopped sticking. No big change on my end, which is why I’m leaning more toward Google messing with how they’re treating the whole footprint than anything site-specific. Wouldn’t shock me if they’re just devaluing the same old junk harder now. And honestly, some of the “it’s just SERP churn bro” talk feels like cope at this point. If multiple props got clipped at once, I’d be looking at whether the whole method got less sticky, not just one site acting weird.