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Yeah, same here. Not a total crater, but enough that the money pages are basically breathing through a straw. I’m seeing the same split too — info stuff hangs around, commercial pages get hit first. Which, shocker, is exactly what they do when they decide to “improve quality” again.
Yeah, that’s pretty much where I’m at too. Feels less like “quality” and more like whatever dial they twiddled this week. I’ve had pages recover with zero real changes, which is the part that really gets me. Hard to sell clients on any of it when the pattern just isn’t there.
Yeah, same here on one of mine. Looks like the usual Google wobble, honestly. If it was a real site issue you’d usually see *something* else too, not just the rankings doing the hokey pokey. I’m not touching anything yet.
From my experience, yeah, I’d lean migration fallout too. The “GA looks fine but leads are down” part is usually where the annoying stuff is hiding. I’d check logs first like Mason said, but also the boring crap people skip: – any noindex/canonical weirdness on the new host – redirects that are technically working but slower / chained – WAF / bot protection being a little too “helpful” – pages loading fine for humans but timing out or stalling for Googlebot Had one client move hosts and everything looked normal until we noticed the new server was just trashing crawl requests under load. Took a few days to settle, but yeah, leads dipped before anything obvious showed up in GSC. If it’s only been since the weekend I probably wouldn’t freak out yet, but I also wouldn’t write it off as “Google being weird” either. That phrase gets used way too much around here. That’s how I look at it.
Yeah, same crap here. It’s not even a slow crawl so much as this weird “maybe later” limbo. I’ve had a couple pages sit there for 4-5 days, then suddenly pop in like nothing happened. Same site, same internal links, same everything. Hard not to think crawl priority’s just messy right now. Honestly,
Yeah, I’ve seen that after pruning more times than I can count. Usually it’s not the cleanup itself so much as Google getting twitchy when you change a bunch of URLs/internal paths at once. If you killed thin stuff and moved links around, it can take a bit for the crawl signals to settle back down. The “impressions still there, clicks dead” thing is especially annoying, but that doesn’t always mean the page is actually gone — sometimes it’s just sitting in a weird holding pattern. That said, if a money page vanished after the cleanup, I’d be looking hard at: – did it lose internal links? – did any of the junk pages actually pass some accidental relevance? – did you change titles/H1s at the same time? – any canonicals/noindex weirdness from the cleanup? I’ve had sites where a “clean” prune looked smart on paper and then traffic dipped for 2-3 weeks before stabilizing. And I’ve had one where it never really recovered until I put a couple of those links back. Google’s real consistent about being annoying, I’ll give it that.
Yeah, seeing the same on a couple installs. Not crazy numbers, just enough to be annoying. Could be the update, could just be bot junk shifting around again. Either way the spam always seems to spike right when you don’t need another thing to babysit.
In my opinion, From my experience, yeah, same kind of nonsense here. Rankings wobble a bit, then CTR falls off a cliff like Google just got bored. I’ve had a couple sites do this where nothing obvious changed and it still tanked for a few days. Usually ends up being some mix of SERP layout junk, title changes in the results, or just one of those lovely “update” side effects nobody can pin down. If it’s only a drop and not a full crater, I’d honestly wait a bit before tearing the site apart. Search Console’s been extra useless lately too, so that doesn’t help.
Yeah, I’m seeing it too, but I don’t think it’s one clean “site got hit” thing. One of mine didn’t really lose rankings much either, but CTR got uglier fast on a bunch of pages. That usually ends up being some mix of SERP changes, more junk above the fold, and Google deciding the snippet it shows is garbage. Fun stuff. The annoying part is it can look like a traffic drop when it’s really just clicks getting shaved off. Same old pages, same positions, fewer people bothering to click because the result page got noisier or the query intent shifted a bit. If it’s the parasite pages you’re talking about, I’d be a little suspicious there too. Google’s been weird about that stuff on and off, and sometimes it’s not even a penalty-looking thing, just a quiet downgrade. Which is honestly worse because you’re left guessing. Not saying it’s definitely the update, but yeah, this week’s been trash.
Yeah, same here. It’s the usual bot garbage — signups with nonsense names, then a couple link dumps like clockwork. I’ve been seeing it come in bursts too, not constant. Annoying part is if you don’t catch the first few fast, they seem to keep poking around for a bit. In my opinion,
Yeah, seeing the same junk here too. Usually it’s a bot wave and they’ll bug off after a bit, but it’s annoying as hell in the meantime.
Yeah, seeing the same here on a couple sites. Rankings look “fine” on paper but the clicks just fell off a cliff, which is always fun. I checked the usual boring stuff first too — titles, snippets, plugin updates, cache, server logs — nothing obvious. Feels more like Google shuffled the SERP layout or just decided to stop sending the same CTR for the same positions. At least lately.
Yeah, I’ve seen that kind of stupid swing too. The expired junk thing is the part that gets me — some dead domain with basically no business ranking suddenly gets a little life, while the site you actually maintain just sits there doing nothing. Google’s been on this random-bounce nonsense for a while now. I wouldn’t trust a one-term pop at all, but I also get why people are fed up with the “just make better content” line. That advice gets real old when the results don’t even look connected to the work being done.
In most cases, realistically, yeah, it’s been ugly this week. I’m seeing the same junk too — random usernames, same site links, same nonsense, over and over. First-post approval helps, but if they’re still getting through that fast, I’d be looking at the signup side more than the post side. One of my forums got hit hard until I tightened registration a bit, then it calmed down a lot. Honestly,