My webhost (2mhost) has had its hard drives (including backups) taken away by US Homeland Security with no idea when/if they might get them back. That means my site has been replaced with a blank folder. I have some backups myself but they're 300 miles away at the moment and I can't get them until Monday. I obviously don't want all my pages deindexed by Google or the other SEs! I have hastily put together a note for my customers on the homepage. Right now that's the only page on the site. Is there anything else I could do to prevent them being deindexed until I can put up the backups on Monday?
I don't think a few days will have you deindexed. Google is smart enough to know that these things happen. If it were a matter of weeks, I'd worry, but I think you'll be fine until Monday.
In a week, his site will lose a lot in SERP. You can do one thing, rose. Google your site for cache. try to get at least your main pages from internet cache and upload them on your Web server. Thats what you can do right now. but again you'll be in need of images, coz google doesnt cache images.
I don't think 3 days offline will deindex your pages..but you may loose some serps..try to get pages from cache..and images from archive or so..
Thanks for your help guys. I've painstakingly grabbed 30 or so pages off of the newest caches from Google/Y/MSN including everything linked from the homepage (panting,wheezing!). No CSS or images of course but there's nothing i can do about that. If anything else occurs to you i'd love to hear it! Of course our host couldn't give us the reason why the HDs were taken, homeland security woudn't tell them either. From the level of support I got from 2M when I was trying to find out what happened,that's the last time I'm dealing with them. Luckily I had all my other sites hosted with Phurix, but one is my main income earner by far.
The css and images won't matter to search engines. I'm guessing the host put it in their agreement that they aren't repsonsible for any loss whatsoever, so all I can say is good luck. You seem to have put in a lot of effort into keeping your place, and that's all you can do probably. I doubt the search engines will totaly disregard all linking you have done to get where you are, so hopefully they won't just forget about you.
I seem to be already slipping in Google. Steady in MSN/Yahoo. Interestingly my other sites have all dropped serp places, presumably because they were depending heavily on link weight from this one. I'm gonna keep track of this in my new blog. On the up side it's given me something interesting to kick off the blog with !
Oh no!!! I once had some sites down for almost a week...and Google listing wise, they were almost destroyed.
I don't know if any of you have dedicated servers with managed.com They are down (with all (hundreds) from last 10 days.. they were trying to move from CA to NJ and did some blunder..now they say they don't even have the data with them.. I had one server will them. My last backup was 2 months old.. For one forum and one big site I didn't had any data at all.. so I have to build them from scratch again.. I hate managed.com