SEO recovery
Traffic doesn't leave. It gets sent away. Find out by what.
A ranking collapse always has a mechanism — a technical wound, an algorithm re-score, a competitor's sprint, or a hack you haven't found. Recovery starts with naming the mechanism, because the four cures share nothing but the invoice.
Diagnosis is the product. Everything else is commentary.
Most 'SEO recovery' pitches skip straight to a retainer. Ours starts with a verdict: your drop, dated and matched against Google's confirmed update calendar, your Search Console evidence, your crawl, and your backlink profile — concluding in plain English which species of drop you have and what recovery honestly looks like. Sometimes that verdict is 'a noindex tag shipped with your redesign' and the recovery is a week. Sometimes it's a core update and the recovery is a program. You deserve to know which before you spend like it's either.
The self-diagnosis guide covers the first hour; this service is the full forensic version — and then the execution.
The four species, and what recovery means for each.
Technical wounds — broken redirects, indexing blocks, certificate failures, speed collapses — recover fastest: fix the wound, request recrawl, watch positions return over weeks. Algorithmic re-scores recover on Google's calendar, not ours: the work is genuinely improving what the update targeted, and the honest timeline is months. Competitive erosion recovers by out-executing — content, links, and ongoing SEO. And hack aftermath recovers only after the cleanup is total.
Every engagement names its species up front and prices accordingly — a flat diagnostic, then a scoped recovery plan you can execute with us or without us.
What we will never promise.
Guaranteed rankings, guaranteed timelines, or 'we know someone at Google.' Nobody honest sells those. What we put in writing instead: the evidence for the diagnosis, the specific work list, the measurement plan in Search Console, and dated checkpoints where we tell you plainly whether it's working. That's what recovery looks like from inside a shop that's done it since 1999.
What the recovery covers.
Forensics first, then the fix — whichever species of drop you've got.
Drop forensics
Dated against Google's update calendar, mapped in Search Console — the verdict with evidence.
Technical repair
Redirects, indexing blocks, crawl errors, certificates, speed — the fast-recovery species.
Content & quality program
For algorithmic re-scores: the genuine improvements the next assessment needs to see.
Backlink triage
Lost links found, toxic patterns assessed honestly — without the disavow theater.
Hack aftermath
Spam-page cleanup, reinclusion requests, and the trust rebuild after an infection.
Measured checkpoints
Search Console milestones, dated — so 'is it working' has a factual answer.
Questions we hear a lot.
How fast can rankings come back?
Species-dependent, and anyone who answers without diagnosing is guessing at you. Technical fixes: often weeks. Algorithmic re-scores: typically months, gated on Google's next assessment. Competitive erosion: as fast as you out-execute. The diagnostic tells you which curve you're on before you commit to riding it.
Can you guarantee recovery?
No — Google owns the scoreboard and sells no guarantees to anyone. We guarantee the diagnosis is evidenced, the work is executed properly, and the measurement is honest. In practice, technical-species drops recover reliably; quality-species drops recover when the quality genuinely improves. We'll tell you your odds straight.
We got a 'manual action' notice. Is that this service?
Yes — manual actions are the rare human-issued penalty, and they come with a reconsideration process that rewards thoroughness and punishes half-measures. We handle the cleanup and the reconsideration request; the key is fixing everything before asking, once.
What if the diagnosis is 'you're being outcompeted'?
Then you'll get that in writing with the evidence — who's winning, with what pages, and the gap analysis. It's the least fun verdict and the most actionable: the recovery plan becomes an offense plan, and you decide how much offense to fund.
Adjacent help
Sign-in rarely travels alone. Here's what usually rides with it.
Get the verdict first.
Send your domain and when the drop hit. You'll get a real diagnosis with evidence — and a recovery plan priced to its actual species.