May 20, 2026 at 3:45 am
#5445
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Kind of feels like yeah, if it was the WordPress side you’d usually see something a bit more obvious than “Google decided to be weird for a week.” I’d still check the boring stuff once more though — noindex, canonicals, crawl errors, maybe a plugin update you forgot about — but if the pages are still indexed and just got shoved down, that smells like update churn to me. Cheap hosting can make it worse, sure, but I wouldn’t pin this on Yoast unless you actually changed something. If you can, compare impressions vs clicks in GSC. That usually tells the…