Reply To: Traffic dead after this week’s update

[axelrowan]

Honestly, yeah, that pattern’s ugly, but I wouldn’t jump straight to “Google is random” either. If it was just one site, in most cases. Two sites with the same AI-ish base and light edits though? That smells more like a footprint issue than some mystery update mood swing. I’ve seen the same thing where it looks like a recovery, then it gets reprocessed and falls back off a cliff. Not saying it’s definitely the content, but I’d be looking hard at how similar the pages are across both sites. Google seems way less forgiving on that stuff lately.