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From my experience, yeah, that’s basically what it is on a lot of queries now. We’ve had a couple pages hold their spot and still lose a chunk of clicks because the SERP’s doing the answering for them. Rankings look nice in a report, but if nobody scrolls past the junk above it, who cares. At least lately.
Usually, yeah, same general mess here. Nothing catastrophic, just enough little dips and jumps to make the numbers look stupid. I’m not touching anything yet either. Half the time this stuff settles and the other half you spend two days “fixing” a ghost. Personally,
Usually, yeah, I’ve seen that exact “comes back for a day then faceplants again” thing before. Usually means it wasn’t a real recovery, just Google wobbling around for a bit. The AI content part could absolutely be part of it, but honestly I wouldn’t assume that’s the whole story. I’ve had sites with decent human edits get smacked too, so it’s not always as simple as “AI bad, case closed.” If it happened right after this week’s update, I’d be looking at it as a quality / trust hit first, not a plugin issue. Those checks you did are fine, but they rarely explain a cliff-drop like that.
Technically, in my opinion, yeah, same here. Most of it looks like junk dressed up with a fancy label. What’s been annoying me is the “picked up by AI” stuff with zero actual business impact. Cool, a bot glanced at a page nobody cares about — meanwhile the money pages are still dead. I’m not buying half these tools until they can show me something beyond vibes and weird referral strings.
Yeah, same crap here. It’s not even clever anymore, just endless junk accounts and the same lazy link drops. Slowing signups down helps a bit, but honestly it just buys you time. These bot swarms always seem to come back once they sniff out an easy forum.
Yeah, I’m seeing it too. Feels like one of those weeks where Google’s just doing random stuff and nobody really knows why.
In most cases, yeah, same on a couple sites here. It’s been weirdly inconsistent — fresh pages sitting around while some useless old URL gets crawled like it matters. I’m not convinced it’s anything “mystical” either, just Google being Google for a week.
Technically, yeah, that’s basically every week now. I’m seeing the same kind of garbage on a couple client sites — not a full wipeout, just enough of a drop to make the numbers look ugly and the client start asking dumb questions. And of course Google never makes it obvious whether it’s actual ranking loss or just them swapping in some worse SERP junk. The “punished for existing” bit is honestly not far off though. Feels like half the time you’re just waiting for the next shuffle. In my opinion,
Realistically, yeah, that’s pretty much been my experience too. One page getting kneecapped like that usually isn’t some dramatic “site’s dead” thing, it’s more like Google shuffled the deck and your page lost whatever little spot it had. Happens all the time with affiliate stuff. One day it’s fine, next day it’s buried under Reddit, YouTube, a forum thread from 2017, and some random trash result that shouldn’t even be there. I’d be looking at whether the queries changed before I’d start panicking. GSC loves making it look like the page vanished when really it just got pushed into worse terms or worse SERPs. That said, the “nothing changed except everything changed” thing is exactly why I hate working with Google traffic. It’s always some vague mess.
From my experience, yeah, seeing it too. Couple client sites got that same ugly drift and nothing obvious changed, which is always the fun part. I’m not even bothering with the “wait 2 weeks and pray” crowd anymore, that advice’s basically forum wallpaper at this point.
Yeah, “submitted” basically means “we’ll get to it whenever” now. I’ve had the same thing on a couple client sites — not even bad pages, just normal stuff in a decent section — and Google acts like it’s on a coffee break. The annoying part is when some random page gets picked up instantly and the new one sits there doing nothing for days. Could be wrong though.
In most cases, personally, yeah, same here. Feels like “submitted” just means “maybe someday” now. And honestly I don’t buy the whole “quality threshold” talk as the only answer — I’ve seen boring utility pages get crawled quick and decent pages sit there doing nothing. Google’s just being picky in a way that’s hard to map out, which is annoying as hell.
In my opinion, Yeah, same general mess here. We’ve had pages get picked up fast when they’re tied into a stronger section, but then other stuff just sits there like it’s invisible. And yeah, Search Console activity doesn’t mean much to me anymore either — I’ve seen it crawl a page and still not do anything useful with it In most cases,. Honestly feels like they’re being way more selective about what gets any real attention. Not sure if it’s some quality threshold thing or just Google being lazy again, but it’s definitely not the old “publish + internal links = done” situation.
In my opinion, yeah, same here on a few client sites. It’s getting old fast. I’m not even bothering with the “maybe it’s quality” line anymore because I’ve seen junk get in and decent pages sit there for ages. Google’s just being weird with whatever queue/throttling thing they’ve got going on.
Realistically, yeah, I’d still check the plugin first before I go full “Google hates me” mode. I’ve had updates do dumb stuff like flip canonicals or mess with output on affiliate templates, and the pages looked normal until you actually crawled them. GSC then starts acting like the site’s on fire for a few days and everybody panics. If it were me, I’d compare one of the dropped URLs before/after the update and see if anything in the source changed. Even something tiny can be enough. If the plugin touched schema, internal links, canonicals, or noindex stuff, that’d be my bet. Google might be a mess, sure, but the timing here feels too clean to ignore.