A simulated training case

Fix a Broken Website. Learn SEO by Doing.

Work through a realistic SEO case, investigate technical issues, implement fixes, and validate your decisions in a simulated website environment — $5, one-time, yours forever.

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What is Fix the Site?

A deliberately broken site, built to be investigated.

Fix the Site drops you into Coastal Comfort Plumbing & HVAC — a fictional local service business whose website is quietly losing search visibility. Nothing about the business is real; everything about the SEO problems is realistic. Each issue has a plausible cause, observable evidence, a clear learning objective, and a deterministic way to check your fix — the same standard the free 4-level game holds itself to.

Scope

What you get for $5

Included

  • A simulated business — Coastal Comfort Plumbing & HVAC — with 3 case chapters
  • 9 identifiable SEO issues spanning technical, on-page, and site-architecture problems
  • The full diagnose → strategize → implement → validate workflow, with a simulated recovery graph
  • A progressive hint system for every issue (concept → evidence → direct guidance)
  • A completion report showing issues identified, fixes validated, and skills practiced
  • Lifetime access to the case — no subscription, no time limit

Not included

  • —Real Google Search Console or Analytics data — everything here is simulated
  • —A live, publicly indexed website — this case lives inside SEOdisaster.com only
  • —An accredited certification — the completion report documents practice, not credentials
  • —Guaranteed ranking, traffic, or employment outcomes on any real site

How it works

Investigate, diagnose, fix, validate

1

Investigate

Read the business context and evidence for each chapter — the same kind of clues you'd find auditing a real site.

2

Diagnose

Identify which issues are actually the cause, and which are plausible-sounding distractors.

3

Fix

Choose a recovery strategy, weigh its tradeoffs, and implement the specific technical fix.

4

Validate

Your fix is checked against a deterministic answer, and a simulated recovery graph shows the outcome.

Example challenge

A preview from Chapter 1

Chapter 1 — The Vanishing Homepage

Three months after a rebrand, Coastal Comfort's new site has fallen from roughly 2,400 monthly sessions to 340. Search Console shows only 9 of 40+ pages indexed. You pull up the homepage source and find the canonical tag still points at the old, retired domain.

Critical: wrong canonical URLCritical: stray noindexMajor: stale sitemap.xml

Full chapter unlocks after purchase — diagnose the cause, choose a recovery strategy, then type the corrected tag yourself.

What you'll practice

Learning outcomes

Canonical tag auditing and correctionMeta robots / noindex diagnosisSitemap and robots.txt maintenance after a migrationDuplicate and near-duplicate content consolidationOrphaned-page discovery and internal linkingTitle tag and meta description writingBroken internal link auditingPrioritizing issues by severity

Trust & transparency

How this works, plainly

Coastal Comfort Plumbing & HVAC is entirely fictional — the business, its history, and its content were built for this case.

Every traffic, ranking, and indexing number you see is generated by the same simulation engine as the free game — never real Google Search Console or Analytics data.

Each issue is intentional and documented: a real cause, observable evidence, a specific learning objective, and a deterministic check on your fix.

$5 buys lifetime access to this one case: 3 chapters, 9 issues, a hint system, and a completion report. It does not include the paid tiers of the old game ladder — those aren't sold anymore, only the free 4-level game and this case are.

Validation is server-checked and deterministic wherever the issue allows it — the answer key is never shipped in a way that trivially bypasses the challenge.

Pricing & access

One-time payment. Yours forever.

The Game

$0

  • ✓ All 4 disaster levels (32 chapters)
  • ✓ Full diagnose → strategize → implement → monitor loop
  • ✓ Achievements, XP & leaderboard
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Fix the Site

$5

  • ✓ Investigate a simulated broken business website
  • ✓ 9 SEO issues — technical, on-page & architecture
  • ✓ Lifetime access, one-time payment

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Coastal Comfort Plumbing & HVAC a real business?

No. It's a fictional company built specifically for this training case. Its content, traffic numbers, and rankings are generated by the same simulation engine that powers SEOdisaster's free game — not real Google data.

How is this different from the free 4-level game?

It's built on the same engine and workflow, but instead of a multi-week narrative across 4 levels, it's a single, focused case: one business, 3 chapters, 9 issues, start to finish. A good next step once you've played the free levels, or a faster way to try the format.

How does validation work?

Each fix is checked against a specific, deterministic answer — a corrected tag, a fixed URL, the right meta description. You get clear pass/fail feedback and an explanation either way, plus progressive hints if you get stuck.

Is this a certification?

No. You'll get a completion report listing the issues you identified, the fixes you validated, and the skills you practiced — labeled as a SEOdisaster completion report, not an accredited credential, and it doesn't promise ranking or job outcomes.

Do I need an account before I pay?

No — checkout works without an account. If you don't have one yet, we create it automatically from your checkout email and sign you in right after payment.

What's the refund policy?

Refunds are handled through Lemon Squeezy, our payment processor, per their standard policy. Contact support if something went wrong with your purchase.

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