May 20, 2026 at 12:06 pm
#5776
Participant
Yeah, seeing the same garbage here. One client site took a clean 20-25% hit, another one’s basically flat, and a third got a weird bump for pages we barely even care about. So, standard Google “we know what we’re doing” week. I’m not calling it until I’ve looked at logs and GSC for a couple more days, but the crawl patterns already look a bit off on two properties. Feels less like a clean update and more like they’ve tweaked something in how they’re weighting stuff again. The annoying part is it’s always the same story: one site gets hammered, another random site gets a free pass, and everyone has to pretend there’s some grand logic to it. There usually isn’t, at least not immediately.