Restoring a Luxury Waterfront Website and Its Search Presence
The Elements is a limited collection of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom waterfront condo villas in Maya Beach, Belize. When its WordPress website was hit by a search-spam hack, we cleaned and secured the installation, cleared the spam from Google Search and then moved the site onto its own dedicated server.
The Challenge
The Elements recovery involved several critical challenges, including:
The site looked normal to buyers, while Google was being served thousands of spam pages under the domain, putting its search presence at risk.
Malicious files, fake plugins and unauthorized administrator accounts had been planted throughout the installation, so a surface clean-up would not hold.
The site shared its hosting with other installs, and the most recent backups already contained the hack, so recovery had to start from the live site itself.
THE SOLUTION
Our team restored a clean, secure website by addressing these challenges through:
We quarantined every malicious file, reinstalled WordPress core from a verified copy, removed the unauthorized accounts, rotated every password and key, and set up a firewall, login limits and two-factor sign-in.
We submitted a clean sitemap, requested removal of the indexed spam URLs and confirmed Search Console showed no security issues or manual actions.
We migrated the cleaned live site, never an old backup, onto its own server and updated email authentication for the new address.
The Results
We delivered a website the sales team can rely on again.
Secured Website
with the spam removed from Google and the site running on its own server.
5 Days
with the server migration following once the new hosting was ready.
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