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HELP – Site Has Been Hacked – Rankings GONE
Posted by on April 9, 2026 at 10:24 pmOne of my websites had recently been hacked 2 weeks ago. I manage a large portfolio so I only managed to catch onto this a few days ago.
– 100s of spam pages created around Thai gambling
– all title tags and meta descriptions changes to Thai gambling keywords
– 1000s of spam bot clicks sent to those pages
– Rankings for everything dropped. I was even ranking #1 for a very high volume keyword and even that has dropped off completely
This has impacted my rankings for all keywords. We’re actively restoring the site, but our rankings are lost and still have not been recovered yet.
Will our rankings restore naturally? What else should I do to fix this, SEO-wise?
Thanks
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Give it time. If nothing changes after all the spam has been de-indexed – then I’d worry. For now you need to give things time to recover.
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>Will our rankings restore naturally?
Probably, with time (and assuming you clean it properly)
>What else should I do to fix this, SEO-wise?
It’s impossible to tell, nobody knows what you have. The only thing I can say for sure is: get someone who knows how to secure a website.
Additionally, if you have more websites on the same server, make sure the others weren’t attacked as well. Cross-site infection is one of the most common attacks.
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Yes they should return, I had a site that was affected by malware and flagged in GSC, cleaned it up, appealed in GSC and their rankings are back up.
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