Anyone Noticing Major Google Ranking Drops Recently?

Same here, one of my sites lost about 30% overnight and nothing in Search Console really explains it. At this point I’m just fixing internal links and waiting instead of panic-changing everything.

simansh said:

Hi everyone,

Over the past week, I've noticed that several websites that had ranked on Google's first page for years have suddenly disappeared, replaced by low-quality and irrelevant websites.

Has anyone else experienced this recently?

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I have seen this in a couple of websites but it seems like a case where there rr some SERP changes than any kind of penalty. I could first check my queries on GSC.

simansh said:

Hi everyone,

Over the past week, I've noticed that several websites that had ranked on Google's first page for years have suddenly disappeared, replaced by low-quality and irrelevant websites.

Has anyone else experienced this recently?

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google rankings can be quite unpredictable at times.what is interesting is that even older sites with good history are not always safe from these drops.i will be curious to see if the affected sites are in the same niche or if this is going across complletely different industries as well.

simansh said:

Hi everyone,

Over the past week, I've noticed that several websites that had ranked on Google's first page for years have suddenly disappeared, replaced by low-quality and irrelevant websites.

Has anyone else experienced this recently?

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Of course, there has been a lot of movement recently, but no confirmation of a core update from Google at all.

The Google spam update for September 2026 is done, including its second part that came on September 30th. Then came an unconfirmed ranking update from Search Engine Roundtable on October 20th and 21st thanks to third-party tracking tools and industry rumors. In addition, there was a spike in volatility on October 24th. And if your period of drops is somewhere near the end of October or beginning of November, you have nothing to worry about – but no one will know from Google what exactly happened.
November 2026 Google Webmaster Report: Spam Update Done, AI Overviews, Help Docs, Local & Earnings +2

This “low-quality sites taking over established sites” trend is typical of such unannounced changes. Things look bad and somewhat revert to normal after a while, but that does not mean that sites are permanently down.

Would you all say this started the week of October 25th?

simansh said:

Hi everyone,

Over the past week, I've noticed that several websites that had ranked on Google's first page for years have suddenly disappeared, replaced by low-quality and irrelevant websites.

Has anyone else experienced this recently?

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I would look into Search Console and compare their old performance metrics. If there is the same trend noticed among unrelated websites, then it could mean that something has changed on the SERP level.

noticed some pretty strange SERP changes over here too. I’d be careful about assuming it’s a permanent drop though. Google can make ranking adjustments and sometimes results show up temporarily before things go back to normal.

Yeah, noticed something similar on a few sites too. Rankings have been pretty weird lately. Some sites that used to stay on page 1 for ages suddenly dropped, while some pretty random sites started showing up.