Recovery guides & playbooks.
The same diagnostics we run on client sites, written up so you can start yourself. No email wall, no fluff — just the steps that actually move recoveries.
All recovery guides
How to recover from a Google core update
What core updates actually re-score, how to confirm you were hit, and the 5-step sequence to rebuild what was devalued.
Read the guide →How to show up in Google AI Overviews
How AI Overviews choose sources, and how to restructure pages so the engines cite you — not just rank you.
Read the guide →Manual action vs algorithmic penalty
How to tell a real Search Console manual action from an algorithm re-scoring — and why the fix is totally different.
Read the guide →Why did my website traffic suddenly drop?
A systematic way to separate an algorithm hit from a tracking bug, a redesign, or clicks lost to AI search.
Coming soonIs my site deindexed from Google?
How to confirm de-indexing, the common causes (noindex, hacks, bugs), and how to get pages back in the index.
Coming soonSigns your website was hacked (SEO edition)
The search-side symptoms of a compromise — spam pages, cloaking, weird queries — and the clean-up order.
Coming soonSend us what broke.
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