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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.
Right… Yeah, that tracks. “Indexing fixed” usually just means Google found a new way to mess with the site faster. I’ve seen crawl improve and traffic still tank because the rankings got re-shuffled for no obvious reason. Search Console always looks so smug about it too, like it’s doing you a favor.
To be fair, from what I’ve seen, yeah, seeing it here too. Same dumb burst of signups and a couple link drops that looked copy-pasted straight out of a spam farm. Honestly I’d stop treating it like “random noise” if it’s hitting multiple boards. Usually means they found some weak spot and are just pounding it until someone patches it. I’d check the boring stuff first — registration settings, captcha, any plugin updates, and whether guest posting or new-user links got loosened. Half the time it’s some “helpful” plugin update that quietly makes things worse. Manual nuking never lasts, like you said. You clear 20 and 40 more show up the next hour. Annoying as hell.
Honestly, yeah, had the same crap on one of mine. It’s always “just a weird spike” until you’re deleting 200 junk users before coffee. Half the time it’s some forgotten plugin setting or a form endpoint getting abused. I’d be suspicious of whatever’s handling registrations first, not the site itself. In my opinion,
Honestly, yeah, that’s the fun part — you “clean up” and suddenly the site looks like it got kicked in the teeth. I’d be side-eyeing those internal link changes more than the thin pages tbh. Google loves pretending it’s all about quality until you remove some dumb little page that was apparently holding the whole thing together. Interesting take.
In my opinion, yeah, I’ve had a couple sites get hit like that too. Usually it’s not some mysterious “wave,” it’s just one opening getting abused until you plug it properly. If it’s comments + registrations both, I wouldn’t trust the plugin stack much either. Half the time it’s some old form plugin or a setting I forgot was even on. In my opinion,
Kind of feels like yeah, same garbage here. One of mine got nuked for like 4 days and then just wandered back like nothing happened, which is exactly the kind of nonsense that makes GSC basically useless in the short term. If it’s only a week or so, I wouldn’t touch anything yet. Google loves doing these little “oops” swings and then acting like it’s all part of some grand plan. Interesting take. Sure.
Honestly, right… Yeah, same here. “More leads” has basically turned into “more cleanup” lately, which is a fun little upgrade nobody asked for. And the weird part is the junk doesn’t always look like junk anymore. It’s like Google learned how to dress garbage up in a blazer.
From what I see, Yeah, I’m with orion on this one. If it’s a proper cliff drop, I’m not blaming GSC magic dust first. Had one site do that last month and it was a stupid plugin change messing with canonicals. Took me way too long to catch because the numbers looked like pure Google nonsense at first.
Obviously. Yeah, that “nothing obvious in Search Console” thing is always a joy. Means you get to play detective with half the site and zero actual clues. I’d still bet on the plugin update before I’d blame Google for being moody again. Seen way too many “small” updates turn into random… Interesting take.
I mean, yeah, I’d still suspect something in the output before I’d blame the update itself. I’ve had “nothing changed” turn out to be a cache/plugin doing some dumb little canonical or rendering thing in the background. Google loves making it look random too, which is just great.
Yeah, I’d still check the cleanup first before blaming Google’s usual nonsense. I’ve had pages “mysteriously” fall off and then realized I’d trimmed out the only part that was actually pulling it along. I mean, Happens more than I’d like to admit. Personally,
Personally, yeah, same here. One of mine got shoved out by a bunch of garbage pages and a Reddit result too, which is always a lovely sign that Google’s “understanding” things again. I’m not buying the whole “content got worse” sermon either. If it was holding top spots for months and then tanked right after an update, that’s usually Google fiddling with something, not your page suddenly becoming trash overnight. CTR getting hit from snippet changes has been nasty for me too. I’ve seen pages keep roughly the same rank but lose a chunk of clicks just because Google decided to rewrite the snippet into some weird half-sentence nonsense. I’d probly wait it out a bit unless the page is obviously stale. Chasing every wobble usually just makes it worse, at least in my experience.
Well, yeah, “just update everything” is one of those lines people say when they haven’t had a site eat itself at 9am. I’d roll that plugin back too. If the other site’s fine, then Den’s “same install conflict” thing might be true, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying. Could still be some garbage update that only blows up with your theme/PHP combo To be fair,.
