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Technical and search recovery after a site compromise, then regional growth: in Q3 2026 average Google position improved from 20.8 to 10 year over year.

Pharmacy · Technical SEO · Recoveryvitateka.ee
01 · Challenge · 2024–2025

Restore a compromised e-commerce site and rebuild organic visibility across markets.

02 · Work completed · 2024–2025

Audited technical health, cleaned harmful link signals and developed a regional search strategy for the European pharmacy business.

03 · Outcome · 2024–2025

First period, 2024–2025, recovery: the source case reports average positions improving by 35% across Europe and traffic reaching 75% above the pre-crisis level.

04 · Search data · 2025–2026

July–September 2026 against the same period of 2025

The second period, 2025–2026: clicks held at last year’s level (74.7K against 74K, +0.95%) while average position improved from 20.8 to 10 and CTR rose from 3.1% to 3.5%. Impressions fell 12% (2.42M to 2.13M): fewer impressions, but in better positions. Clicks and impressions declined in the first half of 2026 and have been growing again since July. These are project-reported results, not a controlled attribution study.

MetricJul–Sep 2025Jul–Sep 2026Change
Google clicks (Search Console)74K74.7K+0.95%
Impressions (Search Console)2.42M2.13M−12%
CTR (Search Console)3.1%3.5%+0.4 pp
Average position, lower is better20.810−10.8

Source: Google Search Console, project audit of 12 October 2026.

What the data shows

  • Estonia remains the main market with 39.6K clicks. The fastest growth came from Russia (clicks from 750 to 2,383), Belarus (350 to 622) and Kazakhstan (178 to 386).
  • The home pages of the language versions (Russian, Latvian, Finnish, Lithuanian, English) and several product pages grew the most year over year.
  • Impressions in Google’s AI-powered results grew month after month: from about 18,000 in May to about 112,000 in September 2026 (315,000 in total). Most come from Estonia (84,000), Russia (40,000) and Finland (20,000).
Q3 2025 against Q3 2026
Google clicks (Search Console)+0.95%
Q3 202574K
Q3 202674.7K
Impressions (Search Console)−12%
Q3 20252.42M
Q3 20262.13M
CTR (Search Console)+0.4 pp
Q3 20253.1%
Q3 20263.5%
Average position, lower is better−10.8
Q3 202520.8
Q3 202610
lower is better
Search Console by month, 2026
Sep26,500

Values are read from Search Console charts and rounded.

Impressions in Google’s AI-powered results, May–September 2026
18K
May
38K
Jun
61.5K
Jul
85.5K
Aug
112K
Sep

Values are read from Search Console charts and rounded.

Clicks by country, Q3 2025 and Q3 2026
Q3 2025Q3 2026
Estonia
38,892
39,592
Russia
750
2,383
Belarus
350
622
Kazakhstan
178
386
Poland
576
747

Related source: Source case

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