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Yeah, I’m seeing some weirdness too. Not a full-on faceplant, just a couple pages doing that annoying vanish/reappear thing like Google can’t decide if it remembered them or not. The “GSC shows nothing” bit is the usual…
Yeah, I’m seeing the same kind of garbage on one of mine. Not a clean drop, just rankings getting scattered all over the place like Google forgot what it was doing. What’s annoying is the pages that got hit hardest aren’t even the obvious “thin” ones — it’s the ones that used to pull decent affiliate clicks. I’m starting to think it’s more page-level trust / intent stuff than anything technical, becouse Search Console’s basically sitting there acting innocent. If you’ve got a bunch of near-duplicate money pages or same-y comparison layouts, I’d be suspicious of that. I had…
Yeah, same here on one site — not a total dump, just a couple pages that randomly got smacked. Could be Google wobbling, could be some dumb crawl/index thing, could be nothing until it turns into something worse next week. Fun stuff.
Kind of feels like personally, yeah, same kind of nonsense on a couple sites. Not a full crater, just a few pages doing the old “fine yesterday, invisible today” routine. At this point I barely trust GSC to tell me if it’s raining outside, so… could be Google wobbling, could be some dumb indexing/cache thing, could be nothing for 48 hours and then suddenly worse. Real helpful, as always. Interesting take.
Yeah, same here. At this point I don’t even trust the “just wait” advice unless I’ve seen that exact page bounce back before. Usually if it drops hard and the junk pages stay up, something got reweighted and Google’s just being weird again.
Okay then. To be fair, yeah, same crap here. It’s never “a little spam,” it’s always some dumb bot swarm deciding your forum looks tasty for the week. If they’re getting past moderation, I’d be more suspicious of whatever’s sitting in the signup flow than the spam itself. Half the time it’s some forgotten add-on doing something stupid in the background and nobody notices until the junk starts piling…
Yeah, same here. And I’m already sick of the “must be your site” crowd crawling out of the woodwork like they’ve never seen Google wobble before. I mean, The annoying part is exactly that split — impressions hanging on just enough to keep you second-guessing, while clicks and leads get kneecapped. That’s not some magical “content quality” epiphany, that’s usually Google messing with how it’s serving stuff. I’ve got one client where nothing obvious changed either, and it still tanked in the last few days. So no, I’m not buying the clean little explanation version of this. It feels like one of those search-side shifts where they tweak something, deny nothing, and everybody else gets to play detective for a week. At least lately. Obviously.
Obviously. Well, yeah, “hosting day” is usually just code for “some plugin decided to be clever and broke the site.” I’d still suspect the cache/minify side first too. Had one where the admin was laggy as hell and it turned out to be two different plugins both trying to optimize the same files. Of course they both swore they were innocent.
Honestly, Yeah, I’d still suspect something on the site before “mystery update” tbh. If GSC is basically calm and it’s just a bunch of pages stalling, that feels way more like a template/internal link/canonical mess than Google randomly deciding to nuke you. I’ve chased the update ghost. That’s been my experience anyway.
Yeah, I’ve had it happen more times than I’d like. Usually it’s nothing, just Google being its usual garbage for a bit after a cleanup. But every now and then you do “fix” something and it turns out that thing was holding the whole mess together in a dumb way. What’d you actually change? Because the difference between “normal wobble” and “oops, we nuked something” is usually in the details, not the timing.
Obviously. Intresting take. Yeah, same story here. The “random pages get nuked while the twins next to them are fine” thing is exactly why I don’t buy the usual clean little update explanations anymore. At…
Yeah, this is why “auto-update everything” always sounds like advice from someone who’s never had to clean up the mess after. I’d roll it back too. If the other site’s fine, that doesn’t magically make the update innocent, it just means the damage is being picky about where…
Yeah, I’m seeing the same crap. Used to be at least somewhat predictable, now it feels like pages just get tossed into a black hole for no reason. That’s been my experience anyway.
Yeah, I’m seeing the same garbage. What’s annoying is it’s not even consistent. I’ve had boring little pages get picked up in a day or two, then a totally normal page just sits there forever like it offended somebody. And yeah, the “content quality” answer gets old fast when you can literally watch worse stuff crawl before yours. Feels more like they’re just batching or throttling stuff randomly and calling it a day. Which, knowing Google, is probably not even far off.
Well, yeah, had a nasty burst of that on a couple sites too. Usually it’s the cheap stuff — comments, fake signups, contact form junk — nothing fancy, just bots being bots. If it’s coming back after cleanup, I’d bet something’s still wide open. Open reg is the obvious one, but I’ve also seen some plugin “anti-spam” setup just quietly stop doing anything after an update. Real helpful, as always. On one site I ended up just nuking registration for a bit and tightening the comment form down hard. That cut it off pretty fast. If you’re seeing the same IPs or weird patterns, rate limiting helped more than any of the fluffy spam plugins did, honestly. Okay then.
