May 20, 2026 at 4:29 pm
#6092
Participant
Yeah, seen it. Doesn’t look like a normal ranking hit, more like whatever they’re using to pick citations got stricter again. I’d check whether the pages still get crawled/rendered the same first, because in a couple cases I’ve seen the “drop” was just the AI layer deciding it liked fresher or more explicit pages better. And honestly, meloncrash’s “Google nonsense” take isn’t far off for once.