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In my opinion, From my experience, anyone else seeing this crap lately? Had a few decent affiliate pages holding steady and then boom, gone or buried like they never existed. I’m not even talking about some trash site either. Feels like every time I fix one thing, Google finds another way to screw it up. Starting to think half this game is just random now.
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Yeah, I’ve seen the same kind of thing lately. Not “random” random, but close enough that it feels like it when you’re staring at a bunch of pages that were fine last month and now they’re just… buried. What usually bites is Google deciding a page is “not worth the crawl” or “same-y enough” once signals shift a bit. One template change, one internal linking change, a little more competition, and suddenly the page gets treated like it was always mediocre. Affiliate stuff gets hit hard too, especially if the page doesn’t have much unique value beyond the usual comparison fluff. Google’s been pretty trigger-happy with that lately, from what I’ve seen in logs and GSC. If they’re truly getting nuked, I’d look at: – crawl frequency dropping before the fall – canonical weirdness – internal links getting weaker – page speed/rendering issues – content getting too close to other pages on the site But yeah, I wouldn’t call it random. Just opaque as hell, which is almost worse. Honestly,
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Usually, yeah, I’m seeing that too, and it’s getting old fast. Had a few pages that were doing fine for months, then one update and they’re just gone from where they were sitting. Not even obvious “penalty” stuff either, just that slow death where Google acts like the page never mattered. Honestly the part that bugs me most is how inconsistent it is. Same site, same type of page, one survives and another gets buried. Makes it hard to tell if it’s the page, the cluster, or Google just deciding it’s bored.
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Yeah, that “same site, same pattern, one page lives and the other gets buried” thing is what drives me nuts. I’ve had pages look fine in GSC, decent links, decent engagement, then just slowly slide into the void for no obvious reason. And no, I don’t buy the “Google’s just improving quality” line every time — sometimes it really does…
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Honestly, Yeah, “random” is probably not the right word, but it sure feels like it when you watch a page get kneecapped for no obvious reason. I’ve had the same thing happen with affiliate pages that were doing fine, then one crawl/update cycle later they’re just dead weight. Usually it’s not some dramatic penalty either, more like Google quietly deciding the page isn’t worth shit anymore. Which is honestly worse. What I keep seeing is the weaker pages in a cluster get hit first. Same template, same intent, one page gets enough signals to hang on and the others just slide out. And once they start losing crawl attention, good luck getting them back without changing something real, not just moving a few words around. Also, I wouldn’t trust GSC too much when this happens. It’ll look “fine” right up until it isn’t. Logs tell a uglier story most of the time Realistically,. If your pages were holding steady and then vanished, I’d be looking at: – crawl frequency dropping first – internal links getting thinner – pages overlapping too much – content looking too samey across the site – some dumb canonical or rendering issue But yeah, Google’s been extra annoying lately. Same old…
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Yeah, that’s been my experience too — feels less like a clean “update” and more like Google just quietly deciding some pages aren’t worth showing anymore. The annoying part is it’ll hit stuff that was actually pulling in clicks, not just junk. I’ve got one affiliate page that basically got buried overnight and I still can’t tell if it was content, internal links, or just Google being Google.
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