Reply To: Traffic tanked after a clean-up

[Mason]

Realistically, yeah, I’d be a lot more suspicious of the cleanup than “Google just being weird” tbh. I’ve seen this exact dumb pattern when a site was propped up by junk pages more than anyone wanted to admit. Cut enough of that crap and suddenly the money pages don’t have the same support anymore, then Google starts flailing around for a bit. I wouldn’t touch it again right now. Let it settle or you’re just feeding the mess. Honestly,