Reply To: Traffic dropped again after the update

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Honestly, Yeah, “nothing changed” is usually the part that bites people. If Search Console impressions are swinging around and traffic fell off a cliff, I’d be looking at crawl/rendering first, not the update banner. WordPress loves hiding some dumb little change in output, canonical, noindex, cache, whatever, and then everyone wastes two days staring at “core update” noise. If you’ve got logs, check whether Googlebot is still hitting the same URLs and whether the rendered HTML is actually the same. If that’s clean, then it’s typically just Google being flaky for a bit. If it isn’t, you’ll find the problem pretty fast.