Reply To: Google killed my best page overnight

[axelrowan]

Personally, in my opinion, Yeah, I’d still look hard at that cleanup before blaming some “Google just hated me today” thing. The annoying part is it doesn’t have to be a big edit to move the needle. I’ve seen pages drop after shaving off what looked like useless text, because that junk was actually giving the page enough topical weight / long-tail coverage / whatever you wanna call it. Google can be pretty dumb about that stuff. If you changed internal links too, that’s another easy way to kneecap a page without meaning to. Not saying that’s definitely it, but “same page” usually isn’t really the same page once you start trimming. I’d compare the old version vs new version and see what got silently lost. That’s usually where… From what I see,