{"id":648696,"date":"2013-03-25T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=222303"},"modified":"2013-03-25T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:52:31","slug":"getting-google-rankings-back-after-site-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648696","title":{"rendered":"Getting Google Rankings Back After Site Downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Google Webmaster Help video deals with getting your site&#8217;s rankings back after experiencing some downtime. <\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts will often provides answers to his own questions in these videos. This time the question comes from Googler Pierre Far, a Webmaster Trends analyst at Google UK. The question is: <\/p>\n<p><em>My website was down for a couple of days and now has lost all of its Google rankings. What can I do to get them back? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jMxCOV99Umo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Basically, Cutts&#8217; answer is just to put the site back up, make sure it&#8217;s reliable, and make sure the pages that were there before are still there. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a tension at Google where if a page goes away (maybe there&#8217;s a 404), we don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s really gone away or whether that page will be back,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Sometimes there&#8217;s a server time out, you know, the server is kind of slow. And so, on one hand, you don&#8217;t want to keep showing a page that would be a bad user experience, like it&#8217;s really gone away. On the other hand, it&#8217;s very common for websites to go down for an hour, two hours, a day, two days&#8230;and so you also want to give the benefit of the doubt, so you can revisit those pages and see whether they&#8217;ve gone up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we do have different varying time periods where we basically allow, if a domain looks like it&#8217;s gone away, but it comes back &#8211; you know, it&#8217;s back online, then we just sort of  say, &#8216;Okay, it was a transient error,&#8217; so the short and simple advice is just make sure you put the website back up the way it was, and hopefully things should recover relatively quickly,&#8221; says Cutts. <\/p>\n<p>This may not be quite the answer you were looking for, but that&#8217;s the one Google is giving. 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