Website Help: Find Your Problem, Find Where to Start
October 2, 2026
The pieces, and the manual This site holds a lot: more than a hundred pages of free help, seven article series, and a handful of reports and services. Each piece…
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Is Your SEO Company Inflating Your Website Traffic?
October 2, 2026
A fair question with a checkable answer Every month a report arrives. The line goes up. Sessions are up eighteen percent, users are up twenty-two. And the phone is not…
Read More →How Do I Improve My Google Ranking After a Hack?
October 2, 2026
Ranking Recovery · Part 10 The cleanup returns you to zero, not to first Everything in this series so far has been about undoing damage: getting spam out of the…
Read More →Google Index After a Hack: How Long the Spam Pages Stay
October 2, 2026
Ranking Recovery · Part 9 The honest answer is months Owners want a date. When will the spam pages be out of Google’s index? The truthful answer is that the…
Read More →Why Is My Website Marked as Unsafe? Clearing Warnings After a Hack
October 2, 2026
Ranking Recovery · Part 8 The warning outlasts the problem You cleaned the site. A customer calls to say their browser showed a red screen when they tried to visit.…
Read More →Google Search Console Not Updating: Why Recovery Data Lags
October 2, 2026
Ranking Recovery · Part 7 You fixed it three weeks ago and the report has not moved The removal rule works. You have checked it from outside. The sitemap is…
Read More →What Is a Sitemap, and Why It Matters After a Hack
October 2, 2026
Ranking Recovery · Part 6 What is a sitemap? A sitemap is a file on your website that lists the addresses of your pages for search engines. It is not…
Read More →Google Search Console Request Indexing: Getting Your Real Pages Back
October 2, 2026
Ranking Recovery · Part 5 The other half of recovery Most advice about recovering from a hack is about getting the bad pages out of Google. That is half the…
Read More →Google Search Console Crawl Errors After a Hack: Which Ones Are Good News
October 2, 2026
Ranking Recovery · Part 4 A report full of red is not always bad Open Search Console a few weeks after cleaning up a hacked site and the Pages report…
Read More →Google Search Console Removals Tool: What It Does After a Hack, and What It Does Not
October 2, 2026
Ranking Recovery · Part 3 The button that looks like the answer You have thousands of spam addresses in Google under your domain. Search Console has a section called Removals,…
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