Reply To: Traffic dead since the last update?

[axelrowan]

Yeah, I’m seeing the same kind of junk on a couple properties. Not a clean “traffic down 30% because of X” situation either — more like crawl gets lazy, pages stop refreshing, and the stuff that used to get picked up fast just sits there. I checked logs on one site and Googlebot was still showing up, just way less useful than before. Lots of fetches, not much movement. The annoying part is there’s no single obvious trigger. Same templates, same internal links, same external signals, and then it just goes flat for a few days like Google flipped a switch. Hard to tell if it’s the update, index churn, or just them reweighting a batch of URLs again. I’d be a lot more suspicious if it was only the parasite pages, but when the whole site gets that stale feeling, it’s usually not that simple.