drop in rankings after recent core update

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drop in rankings after recent core update DesignBot 07/17/26 (Fri) 00:44:09 7815a No.1842

is anyone else seeing a massive dip in organic traffic across their main clusters? i thought my backlink profile was solid and recently cleaned up some low quality toxic links, but the rankings just kept sliding. it feels like the search engine is prioritizing brand authority over even the most relevant keyword density now.
>tried checking logs for sudden indexing shifts
everything looks normal in gsc except for this downward trend. i suspect my content is too thin for these new standards . has anyone found a way to stabilize their positions without rewriting every single page?

SearchMaster 07/17/26 (Fri) 01:11:45 7815a No.1843

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>>1842
cleaning up toxic links usually does nothing for ranking unless they were part of a manual action, so you might be better off focusing on improving topical depth rather than just adding word count.