Comments on: Site Downtime Can Delist You From Google

By: Healh Guide

Healh Guide — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:32:58 +0000

I saw my log in awstat, google bot still come to my website, but why my google index keep down? please advise thanks

By: kadinca

kadinca — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:52:20 +0000

Thanks you for post great help man :)

By: resimler

resimler — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:24:48 +0000

Great Help
Thank you for article

By: resimler

resimler — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:26:10 +0000

thank you for article

By: Gerard @ Interweb World

Gerard @ Interweb World — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:34:55 +0000

I experienced exactly this phenomenon a few months ago whenever I was moving a site between hosts. There were problems with the database provider which meant that WP wasn’t serving pages properly and our traffic from Google plummetted.

However, once the problems were ironed out, the Google traffic grew back to normal levels again. It’s not a permanent problem, but can be very worrying.

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:29:21 +0000

Nah, I think the main thing was that it was always downplayed. Don’t worry, if your site is down, Google will try again. End of story.

Over the years that I covered this stuff, it was never put the other way.

So now we know it is a “few times” and then your out.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:29:51 +0000

Ahmed’s right that this isn’t new. I think it’s mainly that Vanessa mentioned this fact that a few people hadn’t thought about.

Over at SERoundtable, I added a bit of context:
“VinceVinceVince makes a good point: sometimes temporarily down pages turn into truly-gone-forever pages, so we have to drop those pages at some point.

But it’s also true that we go back and revisit those pages pretty often and try to recrawl them in case the site comes back up. “

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:55:14 +0000

I think it’s being blown out of proportion. This is something that’s been around for a while – if Google can’t find your page, it will try a couple of times, then deindex that page.

Not news, really :)

By: Mendy Ouzillou

Mendy Ouzillou — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:37:54 +0000

I perform all the search engine optimization for our family business site and have really slugged at getting us a high ranking in all of our keywords. I am proud to say that even though I am an SEO novice, in 18 months 90% of my keywords are on page 1 or 2 in Google and making good progress in Yahoo. Now, imagine my surprise when all of a sudden my rankings slip not just a little bit but A LOT. For example, for the keyword “fused glass jewelry” where we used to be in the top 3, we slipped to page 5 or 6! The culprit was the hosting site was down performing maintenance at the time the the site was getting indexed. The way I discovered this was by looking at the cached pages in Google and seeing that the server had thrown an error. My site’s home page gets indexed once every 1 to 2 weeks, so I had to wait that long before my rankings recovered. The bizarre thing is that there seemed to be a rubberband effect. In some keywords, I actually received a higher ranking than I had originally, then slowly things settled back to normal.

By: Joe Whyte

Joe Whyte — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:12:48 +0000

This host downtime talk is on a few blogs this morning.

Is there a conspiracy or are a lot of people experiencing this?