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Anyone else see a drop in clicks and impressions start of Oct?

One of our websites saw a pretty sharp drop for both around the 5th and it's been trending downwards ever since.

We didn't do anything significant on that site on that date or the week before it. Nothing technical, just a half-dozen new blog entries published on its CMS (and they seem fine in GSC).

We've checked for stuff like manual actions and security penalties, but no dice. Heck, only unusual things we can see before this are:

  1. A jump in not-indexed pages in the Indexing->Page tab from ~2500 to ~4,500 on 28th September, then again to ~6,300 on 1 October. They're alternate pages with proper canonical tags. Most are coming from an auction website where we sometimes sell things and there's a call to action in our listings there that lead to this now-troubled website.

  2. A sharp spike in crawl requests (2x our usual crawl request peaks) in our Crawl Stats from the 28th to the 1st.

Anyone else see something similar or have any insight on what could be causing something like this? There are a lot of much smarter people than me on this sub. I'm hoping someone has something to suggest, because I'm flummoxed.

Ps: I'll try to post a screenshot in a comment.

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