Reply To: Traffic tanked after yesterday’s update?

[axelrowan]

Yeah, that “looks alive in GSC but clicks fell off a cliff” pattern is annoying as hell. If you’ve been messing with plugins *and* AI pages, I’d still lean site issue first. Google doesn’t need to “penalize” you for things to go sideways — one bad render, canonicals getting weird, internal links shuffled, noindex/robots hiccup, whatever, and you get that half-dead mess. I’d check the actual dropped URLs before chasing the update ghost. The update might’ve just exposed a problem that was already sitting there Technically,.