Recently been hacked

[Demigraphic]

Hi all,

So we didn't give our previous website much love because we were too busy working on other peoples websites, we paid the ultimate price with our site being hacked.

About 8 weeks ago we launched a new website, moved the domain to a VPS hosting platform with a new IP. I've put redirects on all old pages to new equivalents.

2 Crawls have been done through Moz since I launched the site and both returning no improvements on ranking (Im trying to rank for local keywords, previously been on page one for)

One keyword in particular says I'm 250, if I look in web master tools I notice I'm ranking for a lot of spam keywords (Brothels and Sauna etc).

My question is have I been place on Santa's (Google) naughty list forever? Or is there hope, with time to recover? Any suggestions if not?

[KevinBudzynski]

Did you receive an alert in Google Search Console? That will help you determine the nature of the attack and identify the vulnerability. Clean it up and ask for review. Make sure you disavow any backlinks that are suspicious.

[Demigraphic]

Hi Kevin

so I got a message saying your reconsideration has been approved but your rankings may not improve or words to that effect.

i think the next step is a link detox.  Im considering having someone who is experienced with recovering Google penalties. I don't want to have to change domain unless it's a last resort.

another think to mention is that I'm getting high traffic from exotic places and Russia. Also my bounce rate is 4.2% which is weird.