Any ideas from experienced folk what happens in the longterm to sites that are down (ie bots see 404 / error pages - pages missing) for 1 week, 1 month, 1 year (in terms of indexed pages and ranking in Google)? I have a few sites that have been affected by moves from several servers to new ones. Unfortunately, my poor planning has affected several sites and exposed bots to several days - 1 week of 404 pages and errors. Now these were established sites at least most were. I haven't seen ranking change yet, any ideas on indexing or future (long term) implications? thanks in advance fellow hat dudes
For a few days, no change. I had same, but no change in SERP. If it is weeks it might, I am not experience that type of long down.