Reply To: Google killed my best page overnight

[Mason]

Honestly, Yeah, I’d still bet the “cleanup” did it. People always say “same content” and then it turns out they chopped the exact section Google was leaning on. If it was me I’d check: – what got removed vs what stayed – whether the internal links now point less authority at that page – if the page lost any of that ugly but useful long-tail junk – whether it got pushed into a weaker spot in the site structure Google doesn’t usually need a huge excuse to reshuffle affiliate pages anyway, but I wouldn’t blame some mystical overnight mood swing first. That’s just the easy story. I’ve had pages drop after “minor” edits and it was always because I made them too clean. Annoying as hell. That’s been my experience anyway.