Adam Davies wrote:
> In article <cu7ojr$2edj$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>, newsgroups@schestowitz.com
> says...
>> Big Bill wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:14:15 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>> > <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>2 days ago my site was taken off-line for maintenance at the host's
>> >>side. The duration of the downtime was about 10 hours.
>> >>
>> >>Some hours ago I found that my site is not listed among the very
>> >>obvious queries that it dominated for a long time. The site was listed
>> >>as usual until some time ago.
>> >>
>> >>Is this normal? Is there a lag perhaps? Are the data warehouses acting
>> >>up in some expected manner?
>> >>
>> >>Thanks for any advice,
>> >>
>> >>Roy
>> >>
>> >>PS - I have looked up some forums on this topic, but didn't find an
>> >>answer that applied to my situation.
>> >
>> > It's possible that Googlebot came calling when you were down and has
>> > dropped you. You'll get back in on the next spidering, I imagine.
>> > Which could be later today, or a million years, or next Tuesday
>> > (tra-la-la), depending probably upon how often you updated your
>> > content and upon how often sites that link to you update their
>> > content.
>> > You'll have to sit this one out, I'm afraid. Shouldn't be more than a
>> > few days though really, I wouldn't think. If it is then come back and
>> > we'll (us here) think of something.
>> >
>> > BB
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>> *smile*
>>
>> Thanks for humouring me, Bill. This has upset me all morning because
>> Google bring me almost 200 unique visitors per day.
>>
>> I appreciate hearing what I have suspected to be the case from somebody
>> else.
>>
>> Roy
>>
>>
> Don't worry you aren't the only one that has happened to, same with mine
> had to take the site offline for a few hours and now although a page is
> listed it's way down the list and all the other pages that were listed
> have dissappeared from google.
That sounds exactly like what is happening at the moment. The ranks are not
yet back to their old state; my main worry was that they never would.
Roy
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