Hey everyone,

My website was recently hacked, but I’ve managed to resolve the issue. While reviewing Google Search Console (GSC), I noticed something interesting. On the day the website was hacked, I saw a massive spike in clicks. On a normal day, I would get only a few hundred clicks, but on that particular day, I received thousands of clicks for around 3 - 4 keywords.

As an SEO professional and marketer, this made me curious about how this works.

How do hackers identify websites that already have good rankings and organic traffic, and what techniques do they use to exploit them? How can a hacked website suddenly generate so many clicks for specific keywords in such a short period?

I’m particularly interested in understanding the SEO strategy or mechanism behind this.…