I ruined my SEO and a stranger from Hacker News help me fix it

About a year ago, John shared a post on HN about how he ruined his SEO. There were loads of helpful tips in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34389421

We added our two cents as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34390189 and decided to keep in touch with John after the thread lost its initial hype to make sure his site recover.

This article is about the different steps John took with our advice to fix the issue.