Reply To: Traffic dropped after plugin update again

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adrian_knox
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Yeah, I wouldn’t hand-wave that off as coincidence either. I’ve seen plugin updates quietly mess with enough stuff under the hood that you don’t get a neat little Search Console warning, just the usual “everything feels off” nonsense. If it were me I’d check the last updated plugin first, especially anything touching caching, images, analytics, or schema. And honestly, if the rankings are just wobbling instead of tanking, that smells more like site behavior changed than some big Google event. From what I see,