Playbook: Recover a Snippet You Lost After an Edit

Playbook: Recover a Snippet You Lost After an Edit

14:30 UTC — Hearing this story a lot: refreshed a page, box dropped same week. The recovery sequence:

— Pull the cached version against current. Find the exact block that held the box.
— If you moved, padded, or re-headed that block, restore its position and length precisely.
— Don't re-add fluff you cut elsewhere — only the answer block matters.
— Re-submit to Search Console, request indexing.
— Wait two crawl cycles before any further change. Twiddling resets the clock.

Why it matters: most post-edit losses are self-inflicted — you disturbed the extracted passage without realizing it was load-bearing. Confirmed recoveries inside 5-9 days when you put it back exactly.

Watching this.