Hacked Site SEO Recovery
Spam pages showing in Google under your domain, gambling or pharmacy words in your search results, or traffic that jumped and then collapsed? We find what was injected, what Google indexed, and what it takes to get the site trusted in search again.
How do you recover Google rankings after a site is hacked?
In three steps, in this order. First the hole is closed, so nothing new can be injected. Then the injected pages are taken out of Google by making them return a 404 or 410, never by redirecting them. Then Google has to re-evaluate the site, which happens on its schedule and cannot be forced. If Search Console shows a security issue or a hacked-content manual action, a review request goes in once the site is clean.
Clearing the spam is the quick part. Getting the trust back is slow, and we say so up front: in our own published case the site has been clean for weeks and the recovery has not started yet. Fixed price: ₹19,999 for the diagnosis, or ₹44,999 for the diagnosis and the fixes.
Your site was hacked, or you suspect it was
This service is for site owners who have found spam under their own domain in Google, and for those who only suspect it. Many hacked sites get no warning at all: in the case we published, Search Console showed no security issue and no manual action while the site ranked for gambling terms.
We handle the search side. We are not a malware removal or server security company. Your host or developer removes the malicious code and closes the hole. We show them where the injected pages are coming from as Google sees them, check from the outside that the hole is closed, and do everything that concerns search. If your traffic fell and you see no sign of spam, start with SEO recovery.
Five signs in Search Console that a site has been hacked
You can check these yourself in a few minutes. Google explains the notices it does send in its Security issues report help, but the first three signs below often appear with no notice.
- Clicks rising much faster than impressions. A sudden jump in clicks and click-through rate with flat impressions usually means the site is ranking for something it should not be.
- Queries that have nothing to do with you. Gambling, pharmacy or loan terms, or queries in languages you do not publish in.
- Pages you never made. Thousands of unfamiliar URLs in the Pages report, often with odd parameters or foreign-language paths.
- A security issue or manual action. A notice under Security & Manual Actions. This is the clear case, and the least common.
- A warning label in search results. “This site may be hacked” under your listing, or a browser warning before the site loads.
Four steps, in writing
1. Find the injection
We compare your Search Console queries, pages and countries before and after the change, and date when it started. This separates the traffic that was yours from the traffic the spam brought in.
2. Map what Google indexed
We export the indexed pages and group the injected URLs by pattern, so your developer or host knows where to look and nothing is missed.
3. Clean up search
A plan for every injected pattern: 404 or 410, never a redirect to the homepage. Then the sitemap, removals where they help, and a check from the outside that the injected URLs and parameters no longer respond.
4. Review and track
Where there is a notice, we write the review request. Then we track recovery against an honest baseline, the traffic you earned before the hack, and report monthly.
Recovery Audit
Steps 1 and 2 plus the clean-up plan: evidence of what was injected and what Google holds, ready for your developer or host. 5 working days, async. Its price counts toward the Recovery Fix if you go ahead.
Recovery Fix
Steps 1 to 4: the diagnosis, the search-side clean-up, the outside check, the review request where one applies, and tracking. About 14 days of our work. Includes the 90-day progress guarantee.
Not sure yet? Book a 20-minute call and send your URL when you book.
What we won’t do
- Remove malware from your server. That is work for your host or a security specialist. We tell them what Google is seeing and confirm the result from outside.
- Promise a date. Google re-evaluates a cleaned site on its own schedule. We report what the data shows each month, including when it shows nothing yet.
- Count hacked traffic as yours. Part of the peak before the collapse was the spam. Your target is the traffic you earned before it, and we work that number out first.
- Redirect spam URLs to your homepage. It looks tidy and it tells Google those pages still matter. They should return a 404 or 410.
Hacked Site FAQ
Yes. The notices cover what Google has detected, and injected content is often served only to search engines. Check your queries and indexed pages for things you did not publish.
It varies, and we will not guess for your site. Injected pages usually drop out of the index over some weeks once they return a 404 or 410. Rankings for your real pages depend on Google re-evaluating the site, which can take months.
No. Let them return a 404 or 410 so Google drops them. Redirecting thousands of spam URLs to your homepage keeps them tied to your site.
Not always. What matters is that the hole is closed. Sometimes a patch and a clean-up are enough, and sometimes an old site is easier to replace than to secure. We tell you what the evidence points to.
Read access to Google Search Console. For the Recovery Fix, a developer or host we can brief, since the server work is theirs.
Yes. The work is async and in writing, so time zones do not matter. International clients are billed in USD by card or PayPal.