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Yeah, same here. It’s not every keyword, but enough of them that it’s hard to pretend it’s nothing. What pisses me off is the page can still be ranking fine-ish and the click just gets vacuumed up by that AI box. So much for “best result.”
Realistically, yeah, I’m seeing some weirdness too, but I wouldn’t blame the update 100% if you’ve been changing plugins and tossing AI pages around at the same time. That’s exactly how you end up with a site that looks “sort of fine” in GSC but traffic gets kneecapped anyway. I’d be looking at the pages that dropped first, not the whole site drama.
Yeah, I’m not buying the “just Google being weird” line if you’ve been messing with plugins and AI pages at the same time. That combo has burned me before. One stupid plugin update and suddenly half the site’s fine for humans but Google’s seeing some janky version of it. I’d be checking the pages that dropped first, not the whole site at once. Usually there’s a pattern hiding in there somewhere. Nathan’s right about one thing though, the GSC stuff can look half-alive and still be a mess. That’s the part…
Well, yeah, same here. It’s like they all woke up at once and decided to be annoying. I don’t even bother looking at the usernames anymore, half of them are obviously disposable junk. Honestly,
In my opinion, yeah, same here. Nothing fancy, just more of the usual junk and it’s getting old fast. I’ve been leaning harder on registration checks too because cleaning up after them is just a waste of time.
From what I’ve seen, yeah, same crap here. Not a huge disaster, but enough to be annoying when you’re already busy with actual site stuff. I’ve noticed the junk posts are getting a little more “human” looking too, which is the part that pisses me off. Not clever exactly, just enough to sneak past the lazy filters if you’re not watching. Been blocking more by behavior than by IP/name too, because the usernames are basically disposable at this point. If this keeps up I’m probably gonna tighten registration again rather than babysit the queue all week. Yeah,
Yeah, same here. Feels like one of those “new day, same garbage” mornings. I’ve had a bit more luck rate-limiting the signup flow than messing with the actual forum posts, but it’s never perfect. The weird part is they’ll usually adapt after a day or two, which is why all the “just add a captcha” advice always sounds a bit too neat to me. At least lately.
Honestly, Yeah, same crap here. We’ve got a couple signup traps in place already and they still keep poking through in waves, which is annoying as hell. What’s helped a bit for me is making the first post/first login do a little more work, not just the registration itself. Bots seem to hate anything that makes them wait or click around twice. Doesn’t kill it, but it cuts the dumb stuff down. Also, if your junk is mostly in one pattern, I’d check whether they’re reusing the same email domains or IP ranges. Half the time it’s the same garbage with a fresh coat of paint.
Yeah, it’s the same trash over and over. Half the time I swear they’re just rotating usernames and hoping nobody notices. First-post approval’s probably the least annoying fix, honestly. I’d rather clear a few legit new users than spend all day nuking “cheap watches” and crypto crap.
I mean, yeah, pretty much. Indexed just means Google bothered to look at it, not that it actually wants to send anything. I’ve had a few pages do the same thing — sit forever, then once they finally show up they get like 3 impressions and die. Usually means the page cleared crawl/index but got nowhere in the actual SERPs. Brutal.
Yeah, same here. Feels less like a “drop” and more like Google just quietly swapped the floor out from under a bunch of affiliate pages. I’m not buying the “your content must be bad” stuff either, at least not automatically. Some of these SERPs are just…
Yeah, seeing the same crap here. Not a clean wipeout, just that slow bleed where one day you’re fine and then you’re buried under junk. And honestly the “SERP got rewritten” angle makes more sense than half the stuff people keep saying. I’ve had pages that were basically unchanged for months and then after an update they start losing to weird forum posts and thin comparison pages. Google’s acting like it forgot what it wanted. I’d be looking at the competitors more than the page, like crawl_void said. If the results are suddenly stuffed with different intent, your money page can be fine and still get kneecapped. Annoying as hell, but that’s been my experience lately.
To be fair, Yeah, I’ve had that happen before and it’s usually not “Google being Google” for once — plugin updates can absolutely break stuff in dumb little ways. I’d check the boring stuff first: cache, sitemap, robots, canonical tags, any schema/plugin conflict, and whether the update changed page speed or injected weird JS. Had one site tank because a plugin update was noindexing a chunk of pages without making it obvious. If it really lined up exactly with the update, I’d roll it back and see if traffic comes back. If it does, you’ve got your answer. If not… then it’s probably just the usual algorithm nonsense and the timing’s screwing with you. Could be wrong though.
Yeah, I’ve had that too. Indexed feels like a fake win half the time — page finally shows up, then Google just kinda shrugs and buries it. Usually for me it’s a sign the page got through the doorway but didn’t pass whatever dumb quality check they’re doing that week. On affiliate stuff especially, it’s brutal.
