> Thanks for stopping by again!  ShoreTel is on the right track about
> returning a 307.  Googlebot may index the new content, but should also
> continue to crawl the original URL, and any ranking or snippet
> hiccoughs should disappear after we crawl your restored site.

> However, you should probably consider returning a '503 Service
> Unavailable' with a 'Retry-After' header indicating when you expect
> your site to be back up.  This is a more by-the-books way of
> explaining that your site is down for maintenance, and you can still
> send along a page explaining the error.  Under most situations,
> Googlebot will not index your error page, and will come back looking
> for updates some time after the date specified in the 'Return-After'
> header.

> Either way, good luck with your server upgrade!
> -Bergy

> On Oct 26, 10:11 am, ShoreTel wrote:

> > If you have another host to put a page explaining that your are
> > currently undergoing maintenance (this helps your users), you could
> > set up a "307 Temporary Redirect" to that page, which will tell Google
> > that the new page is only temporary.

> > On Oct 26, 7:44 am, Business-Supply.com wrote:

> > > All,

> > > We operate an e-tail web site and have archieved very favorable Google
> > > search rankings.  We have a need to take the site down for 8-10 hours
> > > and since Googlebot usually hits us every day, we'd like to know the
> > > most Google 'search friendly' technique to ensure that this temporary
> > > outage doesn't affect our search rankings.  We are currently planning
> > > on doing a simply site maintenace page but not sure if that's the
> > > right approach-??

> > > Thanks in advance,

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