Reply To: Weird ranking drops on WordPress sites

[Nathan]

Yeah, that “GSC is clean so it must be Google” line always feels a bit too convenient. I’d still be checking the actual rendered output on the bad pages. I’ve had this exact kind of dip from a caching/plugin combo where the HTML wasn’t *broken* broken, just inconsistent enough to screw long-tail pages over. No errors, no obvious smoke, just garbage behavior. If it’s the same theme + same cache stack on two sites, I’d be looking hard at whatever’s shared between them. That bounce-back-for-two-days thing is especially annoying, but…