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Site down... effect on Google rankings?

by BenFromSoMo
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So my site is down. It appears that my hosting account was suspended and I noticed there was an old $11.95 invoice I never noticed and I believe my account was cut off because of this. I have been trying to talk to support to get this handled and I hope it will be handled soon. But I was just wondering what I can expect from Google with this. I am ranked #2 on a competitive two word keyword and I would really hate to lose any ground on account of this stupid little mixup.
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  • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
    A few hours, it won't effect it at all.

    A day or two, you will drop in rankings for a few days and bounce right back

    Longer than that or if you have frequents outages and it will be worse.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by aygabtu View Post

      A few hours, it won't effect it at all.
      Yeah right.

      Pull the plug on your own site for a few hours & see how that works out for you in the SERPs.

      Good luck with that.
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      • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Yeah right.

        Pull the plug on your own site for a few hours & see how that works out for you in the SERPs.

        Good luck with that.
        I've lost power for a few hours and it isn't a big deal. The sites bounce right back. Google knows that there are occasional outages, whether it is network issues, power, or maintenance.
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        • Profile picture of the author zannix
          Originally Posted by aygabtu View Post

          I've lost power for a few hours and it isn't a big deal. The sites bounce right back. Google knows that there are occasional outages, whether it is network issues, power, or maintenance.
          It is the frequency of the power outages that will cause suspicion in Google's eyes.
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by aygabtu View Post

          I've lost power for a few hours and it isn't a big deal. The sites bounce right back. Google knows that there are occasional outages, whether it is network issues, power, or maintenance.
          I'm sure Google didn't try to index your pages during down time, so they most likely never knew the site was down.

          If the page/site doesn't exist when Google tries to crawl, you'll drop in the SERPs.
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      • Profile picture of the author Pal7
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Yeah right.

        Pull the plug on your own site for a few hours & see how that works out for you in the SERPs.

        Good luck with that.
        +1. The last thing Google wants to promote to customers is fake pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author BenFromSoMo
    Okay thanks. It has been down for about three hours and the support has not yet gotten back to me. I hope this gets resolved soon. It just has me all bothered.
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  • Profile picture of the author LetterCraft Inc.
    Try and ensure you get hold of customer support as soon as you can. Delay it any more than a few hours and you could see a drop in your rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author BenFromSoMo
    The site has now been down for four hours or so. Support has promised they would get back to me "shortly." This is really annoying me.
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  • Profile picture of the author BenFromSoMo
    So they told me that they suspended my account because of defunct pho processes that were causing too muh CPU load. Anyone have any idea what is going to come of this?
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  • Profile picture of the author rahmat
    I have a site that was down because it has been hacked. I can not remember how long it has been hacked. But I notice that Google did not show the site in the top position for my keywords. After, I recover the site, Google has it back in the top position.

    So I guess, Google just want to have its users to have a good experience. Thus Google will remove (temporarily?) your site if it gets wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeTheBuilder
    All depends on how frequent google spiders your site. Within 24hrs you'll see negative drops in the serps, but it will come back.
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