Will a server outage affect SERPS

My host is trying to restore from back-ups following a hacking attempt and at least one of my sites is down. They are unable to say how long it will be offline for.

At what point does this become an issue from the perspective of affecting Google SERPS?

 

Google crawlers try to store updated data each and every day. If crawler does not find your website at hosted server and if they have information of some kind of malicious software information at server and website then your website may get some kind of penalties and your ranking may also gone.
If they are getting problem in storing backup that server, you can ask them to store website at temporary server, otherwise find other solution to switch your website at safe and secure server.

 

yea,if your site is not valid,google will decrease your rank

 

Your site remaining down for a day or two, should not be a big concern and I do not think it would have any significant adverse effect on your serp position.

However, more prolonged the down time, greater damage it would cause to your standing!

Regards,

RightMan

 

It may be temporarily gone but if you are back online, you should get your rankings back.

 

If you are off for long time like 5+ days then you are gone else no matter.

 

The current advice is that it should be no longer than a days, so fingers crossed.

 

You should not be worrying over it so much, as such restoring from back ups would anyway get completed in one or max. 2 days!

Regards,

RightMan

 

I totally agree, it's just a natural reaction when your site is just an error page

 

I had a server crash and coder wasnt around for 15 days to fix and lost several positions in the serps but after 2 weeks it looks like its coming back slowly.

thx
malcolm1

 

their is a cnance you will loose some of your serps

but they should return

 

Yes it can effect SERPs but as other point out, the effect would be temporary. I would also suggest that once it is back you make as few changes as possible for a couple of weeks. An unavailable server followed by big changes can look suspicious to G.

 

It's always interesting to see a diverse range of replies but on balance, the message seems to be that short term outage wont be a problem, cheers guys.

 

Downtimes affect rankings but 2 day downtimes ... can't affect much had site downtime for 2 weeks and didn't had much rankings drops ...

 

If Google Bot visited your website multiply times and found out that your server is down, then it might drop you from the index or index your current offline page

Then, sure it will affect your website ranking for a while.

 

A lot of it depends on how many pages you have indexed, how long your site has been online and how many backlinks you have. I have personally seen sites there were offline for 4 - 6 weeks and were still ranking on the first page of google. One site I know for about for sure, it was off line for at least 4 weeks before it lost its #1 spot for its keywords. It was another 5 - 6 months before all of its pages were delisted.

If your site has been online for at least 1 year, has a lot of indexed pages, and a lot of backlinks, you should be good for at least 2 weeks.

 

Thanks Kev.

The site must be two years old, maybe 10 pages indexed and has authority. Yahoo backlinks showing as 137,000 but that seems rather a lot.

 

Till the time your website is down it will affect the SERP's. The fact - if crawler visits your website when it is down then it will be considered as bad from G point of view.

 

Back in january I had a server crash. Site was down for 4 days, lost all serp rankings and still hasn't recovered. Good luck though, I'm sure its different for different websites.....

 

Phew....site got back up late yesterday, hoping all will be fine