From a hacked WordPress site to the first page of Google

Their old WordPress and Elementor site was hacked and buried under roughly 32,000 spam links. We rebuilt it clean on Instinctor, and Google put it back on the first page.

The previous site ran on WordPress with Elementor. It was compromised and stuffed with roughly 32,000 spam links, the kind of injection a plugin stack invites and rarely recovers from cleanly. Google saw a spam-riddled domain and buried it near position 86, effectively invisible to anyone searching for karate in Yonkers.

We did not try to disinfect the old stack. We rebuilt the whole site from scratch on Instinctor: one secure platform with no pile of plugins to exploit, then resubmitted a clean sitemap so Google could re-crawl a site it could trust again.

With the spam gone and the domain secure, Google re-crawled a clean site. On local searches like karate yonkers, karate class near me and american olympic karate, average position climbed from around 86 to the top five to eight. Instinctor manages the site with monthly SEO, so those gains keep compounding instead of slipping back. These are positions from Google Search Console, not conversion or enrollment figures.

Average Google position on local karate searches, before and after the rebuild. Source: Google Search Console.

The rebuilt site does the business work too. It presents karate programs for adults, youth and families, provides a public class schedule, and lays out monthly membership options for one, two or three members, with clear calls to action from interest through to enrollment.

Instinctor designs and builds business websites, then manages the security and monthly SEO that keep them on the first page. Let's build yours.