Reply To: Weird ranking drops on WordPress sites

[axelrowan]

Yeah, that’s the annoying part — clean GSC and still getting hammered on long-tails usually means the problem’s somewhere in the crawl/render/output chain, not some big dramatic penalty. I’d be checking for stuff like: – different HTML being served to bots vs normal users – lazyload / JS rendering weirdness – canonical flipping around – headers changing on some requests – plugin-generated content not being stable If it’s bouncing back for a couple days, I’d be even less inclined to blame “Google update” nonsense. That pattern feels more like instability than an actual algo hit. At least lately. From what I see,