Reply To: Traffic dead after this week’s update

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To be fair, yeah, I’m with Mason on this one more than the “Google being random” angle. That recovery-then-crash pattern usually isn’t nothing. I’ve had sites do that little fake bounce and then get shoved back down once they get reprocessed. Super annoying becouse it tricks you into thinking, ok maybe it’s coming back… then nope. If both sites got hit around the same time, I’d be looking at what they share first. Same kind of AI base, same page structure, same internal linking, same “edited enough” feel. That’s the stuff Google seems to sniff out way faster lately. And honestly, the whole “light human edits” thing hasn’t been saving much for me either if the pages are still basically the same underneath. That said, I wouldn’t completely ignore sitewide trust / crawl weirdness either. Google’s been doing that stupid thing where a site looks dead in GSC for a bit and you can’t tell if it’s a content issue or just one of their usual re-evals. If I were betting, though, I’d bet on the shared footprint before anything else. That’s usually where the pain starts. Honestly,