: After the home page was redirected by a hack, it is no longer indexed. How long until it comes back? My site was hacked, and the index page was 302 redirected. It took me a few months to

@Jennifer507

Did you follow the guidelines for removing the malicious codes and following the hacked site guidelines? The last step is submitting a request for review, which can be done here: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2600725?hl=en
To expedite the process, I would submit a fresh sitemap to Google, but I would give it 7 days.

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@Eichhorn148

I have had several cases where rankings were lost due to technical problems:


extended downtime
canonical tags that point to the wrong thing
noindex tags accidentally applied to all pages


In my experience your rankings do eventually return. It can, however, take awhile. As a general rule, I would expect rankings to return in about three times the amount of time for which the problem existed. So if the redirect hack existed on your site for four months, it may take a year for your rankings to fully recover.

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