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Yeah, I’m seeing it too. Not some massive apocalypse, just enough junk to be annoying again. Usually means one of the cheap checks got figured out or the botnet’s just cycling through forums again. Cleaning the accounts is basically busywork if the signup path’s still easy.
From what I’ve seen, yeah, same here. Not a huge flood, just enough garbage to be annoying. Usually when it keeps coming back that fast, it’s not the cleanup, it’s some dumb gap in the signup flow or a bot already learning the easy path around your current checks. I’ve seen that with the “good enough” anti-spam stuff — works for a week, then suddenly it doesn’t.
Yeah, I’ve seen that before and it’s usually not “just Google” in my experience. If the HTML/output is wobbling even a little, long-tail pages get hit first. I’d be checking the raw response a few times and maybe disabling the usual suspects one by one, cause logs love to stay useless until you’re already annoyed.
In my opinion, yeah, a couple of mine did the same thing this week. Rankings didn’t really crater, but traffic just fell off a cliff like GSC decided to have a tantrum. I’m not buying the “it’s definitely the update” line yet either. Feels more like reporting/indexing garbage again, which is basically business as usual with Google.
Honestly, Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’m seeing too. Feels like it’s grabbing the “closest enough” page instead of the one that actually deserves to show. At least lately.
Personally, From what I’ve seen, yeah, same here. Feels like every time Google sneezes, a few pages just get yeeted for no obvious reason. I’m not buying the “content quality” excuse as the default answer either. Half the time it’s some crawl/indexing garbage, an update, or just Google being Google. Could be wrong though.
Honestly, Yeah, I’m seeing the same kind of nonsense. Weekend wobble + junk pages floating up is usually Google just being Google for a bit. I’d give it a few days before freaking out, but if those money pages don’t recover, then it’s worth checking whether something changed in the template or internal links. Sometimes it’s not even the page itself, just Google deciding to be “helpful” in the dumbest way possible.
In most cases, yeah, I’m seeing the same crap. Hard to tell if it’s a real hit or just Google doing its usual little tantrum. I’d leave it alone for now unless it’s still dead in a few days.
From what I’ve seen, yeah, seen it a bunch. Usually the “fix” just changes what Google’s looking at for a bit and the numbers get weird before they settle. If it was a bunch of cleanup stuff at once, I’d be more suspicious of one of the changes than the whole idea of technical SEO. Canonicals, redirects, internal links… easy to make things look “better” on paper and worse in practice for a week or two. If it’s still drifting down after a couple weeks, then yeah, something probably got nudged the wrong way. Otherwise I’d just let it breathe and not panic yet.
From what I see, Yeah, I’ve had that too. Fast crawl/index doesn’t seem to mean much anymore, it’s like Google’s just tossing it in the index and then waiting to see if it cares later. If the old pages are fine and the new ones just flatline after a few impressions, I’d be looking at the section/site signal more than the page itself. Annoying as hell, but that’s been the pattern for me too.
Yeah, same story here. Not some giant flood, just this annoying steady drip of junk accounts that somehow still get past the obvious stuff. What’s been getting me lately is the ones that register, sit there for a bit, maybe even make one normal post, then flip into link spam or weird nonsense a day later. Those are the ones that make you waste time because at a glance they don’t look totally fake. I’ve had better luck catching them with a couple dumb little checks than just cranking moderation higher, honestly. Tight rules help, but they don’t… Honestly,
Realistically, yeah, same here. Not a crazy flood, just enough to be a pain in the ass. What’s been annoying me is the stuff that sits quiet for a bit, then suddenly starts dropping links like it’s clever. Obvious junk is whatever, but the half-legit looking accounts are the ones that waste time.
Yeah, I’m leaning wobble too, but I wouldn’t totally ignore it if it’s the same comparison template again. I’ve had this happen where GSC looks like it’s having a stroke for 2-3 days and then settles, but the pages were also just a bit too samey/thin and Google used that as an excuse to shove them down. Fun times. If the rest of the site is holding and it’s mostly those pages, I’d still check whether they’re getting crawled less or if the internal links to them got weaker somewhere. Sometimes it’s something dumb like a nav change or a plugin messing with canonicals and you don’t notice until traffic falls off a cliff. If it’s only this week, I’d wait a bit before tearing the whole thing apart. If it keeps going for another few days, then yeah, start digging properly.
Yeah, same story here. Weekend updates always seem to stir up some dumb mix of junk pages moving and the actual money pages getting shoved around. I wouldn’t call it anything yet unless it’s still ugly by midweek. Google loves doing this half-baked shuffle and then pretending it meant something. Could be wrong though.
In my opinion, yeah, “update everything” is one of those nice-sounding bits of advice that falls apart the second you’ve got real sites to deal with. I’ve had tiny utility plugins break admin weirdness too. Half the time it’s not even obvious until you start turning stuff off one by one and wasting an hour.