Reply To: Traffic tanked after the last update?

[meloncrash]

Personally, yeah, same here. One of mine got shoved out by a bunch of garbage pages and a Reddit result too, which is always a lovely sign that Google’s “understanding” things again. I’m not buying the whole “content got worse” sermon either. If it was holding top spots for months and then tanked right after an update, that’s usually Google fiddling with something, not your page suddenly becoming trash overnight. CTR getting hit from snippet changes has been nasty for me too. I’ve seen pages keep roughly the same rank but lose a chunk of clicks just because Google decided to rewrite the snippet into some weird half-sentence nonsense. I’d probly wait it out a bit unless the page is obviously stale. Chasing every wobble usually just makes it worse, at least in my experience.