Reply To: Traffic keeps bouncing for no reason

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Well, yeah, I’d be looking at the host / crawl side before I blame the plugins. That “ranks for a few days then just disappears” thing is exactly the kind of garbage I’ve seen when Googlebot keeps hitting slow pages or getting the occasional bad response. Site can feel fine to you and still be a mess from Google’s side. Been there. LiteSpeed Cache can be fine, but if it’s serving weird cached versions or some pages are timing out under bot load, that’ll make traffic look all over the place. Affiliate plugins can add extra junk too, but usually it’s more “death by a thousand cuts” than one obvious culprit. If you haven’t already, I’d check: – server response times at different hours – access/error logs for 5xxs – whether Googlebot is getting cached pages or weird redirects – a couple of problem URLs in GSC’s live test / inspection If the host is cheap and shaky, honestly that alone can do it. I’ve had sites look stable in browser and still bounce around because the server was choking at random times. Google’s not exactly known for being graceful about that stuff. Could still be update noise, sure, but I wouldn’t start there. To be fair,