Reply To: Traffic dropped after indexing finally caught up

[Pike]

Yeah, I’ve seen that too, and it’s annoying as hell. A couple sites looked “fine” while Google was still half-losing the plot, then once it settled on the cleaner set the traffic just got trimmed down. Makes me think some of the old junk was absolutely propping things up more than people want to admit. And yeah, WP canonicals can be a mess. I don’t trust the defaults much anymore either. Just my experience.