The website is finally cleared by Google's Safe Search with the only response from them being what I can only guess to be:
"oops, my bad."
Their reply was empty of anything regarding was to why it's ok now. And it originally flagged my file delivery system as the issue, and only the root of the site and a non-working redirector link (I tested). It's an out of the box solution that nothing has changed on yet it is now cleared. All I did was point out what it was to them in my resolution and here we are two days later. The redirect link was written to redirect to the root of the site. The site, regardless of the content following the URL will redirect you back to the root to login if you are not, so that was a poor test on their part.
Admittedly this took longer due to my unfamiliarity with the process. Future issues if at all should hopefully be only a few days rather than almost an entire week.
The key takeaway for site owners is to go to https://search.google.com (now) and follow the process to attach your ownership of a website to your google account. This requires you adding a TXT record to your DNS. on your hosting provider. They have examples on how to do this and I can help anyone who needs it. Once that is done, they can verify only you own this site and will (in theory) email you if they find future issues. You also then get a dash board where they can offer you suggestions and current issues. I can only assume the other safety systems out there have similar tools.
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