Reply To: Google tanked my affiliate pages again

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From what I’ve seen, to be fair, yeah, I’ve seen the same crap. It’s always the pages making money that get smacked while some useless fluff page hangs on for dear life. I don’t really buy the “just wait it out” thing unless you’ve already seen this exact pattern recover before. Half the time it just turns into a slow bleed and people keep pretending it’s temporary because they don’t want to admit the page got downgraded. If the drop was sudden, I’d be looking at intent shift / cannibalization / internal link dilution before I’d blame the update fairy. But honestly Google’s been so jumpy lately that sometimes there isn’t even a clean reason. Just one day the page is fine, next day it’s buried under garbage. I’ve had a couple come back after tightening them up, but I’ve also had ones that never really recovered until the next big shakeup. So yeah… “wait it out” is only useful if you enjoy staring at charts.