Last year, one of my client’s webservers went down for over a day. Would this have affected the site’s PageRank at all? Hypothetically, what if this had happened for longer–could it actually drop the site from Google’s index?
Land Lubber, Colorado
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good question, clear answer.. great job.
Just to add to this.. An old site of mine is still in the index even though it's been down for at least a month. I would say it takes much longer rather than much shorter for a domain to drop out of the index.
However, I guess it also depends on how popular your site is and how often Google crawls it.
You need to lay off the Landlubber favoritism for a while and pay attention to someone else!
So if a site is down for the short term, a day or so, I take it that site indexing and former page rank would be restored to the same level as it was prior to the server downtime (assuming nothing has changed on the site and the same incoming links exist). Is that correct or is their some penalty especially with the page rank? …..meaning that more work has to be done to get the former page rank.
Landlubber deserves a statue for asking all these excellent questions!
That's Right Matt..
We should get into good server to make sure that our website's will not go down..
Thanks for your suggestions
Regards
Imran Khan
Drop it like it's hot Matt. Drop it like it's hot.
I don't even know what that means, but it sounds provocative. 🙂