Reply To: Google rankings dropped for no reason again

[axelrowan]

Personally, yeah, same here. When it’s a clean drop with no crawl weirdness, no template changes, nothing in logs, I usually just treat it like Google had a bad day and wait it out. That said, I don’t love the “just ignore it” advice either. I’ve seen a couple cases where it *looked* like a wobble and turned out to be internal linking shifts or a canonical mess buried in one section. But if it’s across multiple sites and the timing’s random, odds are it’s just one of those stupid ranking swings. Google’s been doing this a lot lately, which is great 🙄 If it’s back in a few days, fine. If not, then I’d start comparing the losing URLs against the ones that held. Usually there’s some pattern hiding in there even when GSC…