Well this is jhon kingston, i juz wanna ask that if i am running a site and that site is down due to some reasons (like 404 error) for some days,but in these 4 days i continue my posting on classifieds,forums etc etc,so tell me if the crwlers will croll that link of my site and found it to be not accessible,will the ranking of my page be down? regards, john kingston.
You have a nice question. Google has been more sensitive than previous. It does not affect first time, crawlers comes to your sites, two or three times, and it continuously found it 404, then definitely ranking will hamper. The site will lost his position in SERPs.