Originally Posted by adtrafic

Last 5 months have been several very large updates.

Octobre spam update: This was very big, the biggest in years... and it knocked down websites of all kinds, news, adult, warez, automatic affiliate stores, niches, etc... Practically everything went to shit with that update.

December helpful content update: This update, as announced, had a duration of 14 days, but the rollout lasted much longer and lasted 28 days until January. The last days before finishing the update it was fluctuating a lot and many more sites went to hell.

And the last few weeks Google is weird asf.