Website & SEO Recovery in Austin, TX

Something changed on the site or the server on that specific day. In the order we usually find them: a redesign or migration without redirects, a noindex tag or robots.txt rule left in place, a hack, and a hosting or certificate failure.

A drop that lands on one date is almost never a Google update. Updates roll out over days and hit some pages harder than others, which shows up as an uneven slide rather than a cliff. That difference is the first thing we check because it changes the entire diagnosis.

Usually, yes, and the sooner the better. The most common version is that every page address changed and no redirects were put in place, so all the authority those old pages earned now points at nothing.

The fix is a redirect map: every old address matched to the page that replaced it with a 301 redirect, then a recrawl request. Recovery usually starts within a few weeks. What makes it harder is time, because links pointing at dead pages get dropped and competitors settle into the positions in the meantime.

Call and you will usually get an answer the same day. The first pass takes a few hours, because most of it is reading Search Console and Analytics data you already own rather than waiting on a crawl.

You get the finding in writing whether or not you hire us for the fix. If it is something you or your developer can correct in an afternoon, we will tell you exactly what to change.

We find the damage, clean what is on the site, get the spam pages removed from the index, close the hole that allowed it and file the security review with Google. If the hosting account itself is compromised, we will tell you plainly that your host has to be part of the fix.

We do not take on incident response for businesses handling card data or health records. That needs a specialist with the right obligations, and we will say so rather than take the work.

Sometimes, and honestly not always. An update that reassessed the quality or usefulness of your content is not a bug to be patched. It is a judgement, and the answer to it is better pages rather than a technical fix.

What we can do is show you exactly which pages lost, what the pages that replaced them are doing differently, and what it would take to compete. Then you decide whether that work is worth doing, which is a business decision rather than an SEO one.

Search Google for site: followed by your domain, with no space. If almost nothing comes back, the site is not in the index. Search Console's index coverage report will tell you the same thing with the reason attached, which is the more useful version.

The usual causes are a noindex tag, a robots.txt block, or a manual action listed under Security and Manual Actions in Search Console. All three are visible in an account you already own, and all three are fixable once you know which one you have.

For the first look, no. Read access to Google Search Console and Google Analytics is enough to find most causes, and we can crawl the public site without touching anything.

Fixing usually does need hosting or CMS access, or your developer working from our findings. Either is fine. If you would rather your existing developer did the work, take the written finding to them.

Often the searches you rank for changed rather than your position. A page can hold its position while the volume behind that phrase collapses, or Google can start answering the question directly at the top of the results so fewer people click through.

The other common version is that branded searches are propping up the total while non-branded traffic falls, which means new customers are no longer finding you and existing ones are. Splitting those two apart is one of the first things we do, and it is the report line most agencies quietly leave merged.

Yes, and most recovery work arrives that way. We are not interested in blaming whoever built it, and quite often the previous developer did nothing wrong at all, since a hosting failure or an accidental staging deployment is nobody's idea of a plan.

What we need is access and honesty about what changed and when. If your current developer wants to be in the conversation, that is usually the fastest route to a fix.