Recovery audit
€690
fixed price, ten working days
- Prioritised damage list
- Recoverability assessed per item
- The basis for scoping the repair
Diagnosis first, then the repair.
Visibility gone after a relaunch, migration or agency change. We isolate the cause, prioritise the critical pages and rebuild in a controlled way.
Five steps from diagnosis to recovery.
A drop is not bad luck. It is a pattern with a cause that can be diagnosed.
Recovery audit
Which URLs are dead, which ranked before, where redirects are missing, which content and signals were removed. Matched against Search Console data and older crawls.
Stabilise
Every old URL that ranked or is linked to gets its redirect to a fitting target retroactively. No blanket redirect to the homepage, which counts as a soft 404.
Remove blockers
Forgotten noindex rules left over from staging, broken robots directives, canonical loops. Invisible in the browser, fatal in the index.
Reconstruct
Ranking content and the wording that carried it come back. Schema, breadcrumbs and internal linking are restored or improved.
Re-indexing and monitoring
Sitemap resubmitted, indexing triggered, crawl and ranking behaviour watched through the first weeks. Progress becomes visible instead of guessed.
What diagnosis and repair cover.
The entry point is always the audit. The scope of the repair is set only afterwards.
Included in the recovery audit
- Comparison of dead and previously ranking URLs
- Gaps in the redirects
- Removed content and signals reconstructed
- Indexing blockers found
- Prioritised damage list with an assessment per item
In the implementation project
- Build and validate the redirect map
- Restore content and long-tail wording
- Repair schema, breadcrumbs and internal links
- Sitemap and re-indexing
- Crawl and ranking monitoring
- Transition into the ongoing retainer
Not included
- A guarantee that individual positions return
- A flat price before the diagnosis
- Blanket redirects to the homepage
- Buying links
Diagnosis first, then repair or retainer.
Access needed: domain, hosting, Search Console. Nothing else.
SEO retainer after stabilising
from €990 / month
monthly, three months minimum
- So the rebuilt trend does not break again
- Technical work, content, internal links
- Reporting with Search Console data
Relaunch with SEO migration
from €3,900
fixed price, eight to twelve weeks
- When a rebuild is the better route
- Migration instead of redesign
- Rankings stay intact
Three signals that it does not fit.
Not every decline is a recovery case.
- Individual queries fluctuate while everything else holds. That is normal movement, not a reason for a project.
- Your relaunch is still ahead of you. Prevention is the cheaper route, and the migration belongs in the relaunch project.
- You want a guarantee that positions return. Positions that depended mainly on the competitive field are something nobody can promise back.
Common questions about SEO recovery.
Will the rankings come back?
In most cases a large share of them, provided you act fast and the cause is isolated cleanly. Pages that have been out of the index for a long time and whose content was deleted do not necessarily return in full. The earlier recovery starts, the more can be saved.
How do I tell a real drop from normal fluctuation?
Three signals: the loss coincides with an event, it hits many pages at once rather than single terms, and it does not recover on its own after four to six weeks. If two apply, the diagnosis is worth it.
How is this different from relaunch support?
Relaunch support is prevention before the move. Recovery is repair afterwards. Both follow the same mechanics, but recovery starts with a diagnosis of the damage rather than a migration plan.
How fast will I see movement again?
Once the redirects are in place and Google recrawls, often within days to a few weeks. Full recovery follows re-indexing and typically takes weeks to months, depending on how long the damage persisted.
What does a recovery cost?
The entry point is always the fixed-price recovery audit. The scope of the repair is set afterwards, because it ranges from a few days to a partial rebuild depending on the damage.
Does this work if another agency caused the damage?
That is the most common case. We need no access to the previous agency, only to domain, hosting and Search Console. The inherited defects get documented factually.
Send us the URL and roughly when the drop started.
We will tell you what is broken, what can be saved and whether a rebuild would be the faster route.
Reply within one working day. 60 to 75 minutes, €190, credited against your project fee.