endpeace

This is why I read this forum.

The $3 plan from RackNerd? Definitely compromised plugin. Seen it a lot. They dont patch nothing. Save your data nuke it. Get a $2 GreenCloudVPS instead. Im on my 4th abuse ticket this year. Lol.

Following.

Disavow is for links you can't remove. If the old site was pure spam, there might not even be backlinks worth disavowing. Manual penalty is different from algorithmic link penalty.

But it doesn't hurt, I guess. Takes 10 minutes.

This. I had one take almost 5 months. The reconsideration queue is not FIFO, it's random lottery basically.

Also larryjeong you should check if the domain is on any blocklists beyond Google. MXToolbox, Spamhaus. Old pharma domains get around.