Reply To: Google killed my best page overnight

[Mason]

Honestly, honestly, In most cases, yeah, I’d still blame the cleanup before I’d start screaming “Google update” tbh. I’ve had pages do that exact thing after “minor” edits. Trim a bit of fluff, mess with internal links, suddenly the page isn’t holding the same weight anymore. Google acts like one paragraph got murdered or something. If it was making money before, I’d compare the old cached version against the current one and see what got cut. Sometimes it’s some stupid little section that was doing way more work than it looked like. Also worth checking if the internal links now point weaker than before — I’ve seen that bite hard. Doesn’t mean Google didn’t shuffle things around too, because yeah, they love doing random crap overnight. But I wouldn’t assume that first. Usually it’s the “cleanup” that wasn’t really a cleanup. In my opinion,