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E-ITA.org Recovery Audit.

The recovery audit for the 2026-08-21 traffic collapse: what was lost, why, and the step-by-step plan to recover.

EACH OF THE SIX PARTS OF THE AUDIT

1. Impact Analysis Loss by page class (Part 1.4), market (1.6), and locale (1.10). Part 2 lines it up against 9 Google updates and 56 site deploy days. FINDINGS, PARTS 1 AND 2 2. Ranked Cause Assessment 5 ranked causes, plus every other candidate cause marked confirmed, downgraded, ruled out, or open, each with its evidence and source. FINDINGS, PART 2 3. Page-Class Verdict Sheet All 454 audited URLs: keep 73, rewrite 70, consolidate (fold) 149, retire (kill) 162. The 350-row redirect map is under Tables and files. TABLE 4. Differentiation Standard The spec for a country page: 12 sections, thresholds, the enrichment sources, and an 18-row checklist mapped to the rater guidelines. STANDARD 5. Two Model Pages: /italy/ The priority market page in English, built to the standard. E-ITA adds the author and reviewer names before publishing. MODEL PAGE 5. Two Model Pages: /es/estados-unidos/ The translated locale page in Spanish, built to the standard with the translation rules applied. MODEL PAGE 6. Sequenced 6-Month Plan 15 steps in 5 phases over about 180 days, in a recommended order, then an ongoing check cycle. Each step says who does it and how to check it. Volume: 70 rewrites. Sized for the next named Google update after 2026-11-15. PLAN, PART 6

ALSO INCLUDED

Measurement framework 6 readiness gates, weekly and monthly checks, and the rules that declare recovery. The thresholds were set before any recovery data existed. PLAN, PART 7 Extended analysis AI search answers, crawler access, demand, the competitor trust ladder, the lost-query map, and recovery scenarios. FINDINGS, PART 5 Hub page prototype: /americas/ One of the 6 redirect-target pages, built in the e-ita.org layout, with a sourced row per folded country and notes on how the rows are made. HUB PAGE Review platform options Review platforms Google uses for store ratings, compared on price, invitations, and widgets, and what happens to the existing Trustpilot reviews. COMPARISON
Redirects by stage Stage 1 (24 rows) ships now. Stage 2 (35 rows) waits for the /es/, /fr/, and /ar/ hub rows. Stage 3 (129 rows) waits for the 6 new pages. Stage 4 (162 removals) follows the fold and kill list review. CSV

START HERE

  1. E-ITA's leadership: the Executive Summary, then your first 14 days.
  2. The developer: Recovery Plan, Phase 0, then the Stage 1 CSV under Redirects by stage.
  3. Writers and reviewers: the writing brief (Standard, section 13), then both model pages.

ALL REPORTS AND TABLES

E-ITA.org Methodology and Findings
The evidence: what happened on 2026-08-21, why, and what the data shows, part by part, with the citation library.
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E-ITA.org Recovery Plan
The implementation half: 15 steps in 5 phases, each with an acceptance check and a named role, plus the measurement framework that judges them.
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Verdict sheet
Every one of the 454 audited URLs classed keep, rewrite, fold, or kill, with the full scoring and traffic record per URL.
OPEN THE TABLE →
Redirect map
The 350-row consolidation plan: 188 redirects and 162 removals, with live status per row.
OPEN THE TABLE →

CONTENT REBUILD

Differentiation Standard
The rules every rewritten country page meets: 12 sections, thresholds, sourcing, the audit's measurement method, score targets, and a writing brief to hand to a writer.
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Model page: /italy/
The English model: the complete Italy page built to the standard, every fact sourced.
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Model page: /es/estados-unidos/
The Spanish model: the complete United States page for the Spanish locale, with the translation rules applied.
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TABLES AND FILES

Recovery audit deck, the slide overview of the report PPTX Content skill walkthrough, the monthly content cycle in action PPTX Verdict sheet, all 454 audited URLs classed keep, rewrite, fold, or kill XLSX Redirect map, 350 rows: 188 redirects and 162 removals CSV
e-ita.org · recovery audit · september 2026