Reply To: Traffic dropped after indexing finally caught up

[sergbank]

Realistically, yeah, I’ve seen that too. A few sites looked “stable” right up until Google seemed to settle on the cleaner version of the index, then boom — traffic just shrinks. Not a crash, just enough to make you realize the junk URLs were probably carrying more than they should’ve. The annoying part is you can’t even tell if it’s the update or just Google finally being less stupid about canonical/duplicate mess. On WP especially, I…