Traffic dropped for no reason again

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    • #5583
      Mason
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      That’s not really accurate. anyone else seeing this crap lately? I’ve got a couple of affiliate pages that were holding steady and then just fell off a cliff over the last few days. No manual action, no obvious plugin mess, nothing changed on my end except normal content updates. What’s annoying is one page actually got a little boost, then the rest got smashed. Makes zero sense. I’m starting to think Google’s just shuffling stuff around randomly again, or maybe my indexing is lagging hard. Search Console is being useless as usual. I’m not even asking for miracles here, just want to know if this is another weird update wave or if I need to start digging through logs like a lunatic. At least from what I’ve seen.

    • #5976
      meloncrash
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      I mean, yeah, I’m seeing the same kind of nonsense. Couple pages fine one day, then they just get kneecapped for no obvious reason. Search Console is basically a smoke machine half the time, so I wouldn’t put much faith in that. Could be a wobble, could be Google “testing” stuff again, which usually means random damage for everyone else. That’s how I look at it. Sure.

    • #7020
      sergbank
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      In real projects, personally, yeah, I’m not buying the “random” part completely, but it sure feels random when you’re the one staring at the charts. I’ve seen this kind of wobble before where one URL perks up and the rest get shoved down for a few days. Usually it settles, sometimes it doesn’t. Search Console is basically useless for telling you *why* in the moment,…

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