Currently working on Auction site, Site will remain closed in the night for 7 hours. During Maintenace all pages will be redirected to Maintenace page contain timing message. How will effect my SEO campaign? Will it effect crawling by the serch engines, if yes suggest probable solution. Thanks
nah, not unless you're unlucky enough to have google visit your site when it's down, and re-index the homepage to the maintenance page. this could hurt you, but it's unlikely to happen.
This is what i am asking if crawler visits then what is the probable chance, because at night a single page what crawler will get for all crawled pages.
In my opinion, NO there won't be any effect but if you will prolong the site maintenance like let's say more than 2 or more days...the might be some damages in your Search Engine rankings
In My case every night website will remain close for 7 hours. As we know that crawler keep checking on our website. even my website is of 1000 pages, will seen as a single page at night. So Will it effect my crawling, caching?
when you are doing site maintenance, why does it take 7 hours long every night? Honestly I would not worry about it because you have been doing this on a regular basis so you might have just need to double your SEO efforts Now with your question, will it affect the index count from Search Engines, this will really depend on your observations but most likely it will What you can do when you are on a maintenance schedule, setup a 301 redirection to your Maintenance Page (maybe this can temporarily safeguard your cache pages) Just do some testings and observe what will happen
If it does crawl the site whilst down, do not worry, just get the pages amended in the sitemap and when back online go to webmaster tools and resubmit the sitemap, this will result in you site being crawled with the new content on - quickly.