October 27, 2026
On October 21, 2026, the NSA told every organization running PHP to patch two critical flaws immediately, or take their sites offline until they could. PHP runs roughly 70% of…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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