Reply To: Traffic dead after this week’s update

[Mason]

Honestly, yeah, I’d be looking at the content footprint too, not some magic Tuesday gremlin. I’ve had that exact “little bounce, then faceplant” thing on sites that were basically all the same template of AI-ish pages with light human edits. It’ll sometimes hold for a bit, then once it gets reprocessed it just gets shoved back down. Super annoying because it *looks* like recovery, but it’s usually not real. If both sites got hit together, that’s the part that makes me think it’s not just random. Same style, same internal linking, same kind of pages, same overall quality signals… Google doesn’t need much if it decides the whole batch is thin. And yeah, Search Console usually won’t tell you anything useful, which is classic Google garbage. I’d check whether the pages that dropped are the ones with the most similar structure/content pattern first. If the “edited” part is just surface-level stuff, that probably isn’t enough anymore. In my opinion,