Are you planning to close your website for a day or longer? According to advice from Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller, here are five ways to prepare. Mueller shares this advice in tweets while ...

Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if your server returns a 500/503 HTTP status code for an extended period of time for your robots.txt file, then Google may remove your site completely ...

Google says brief 503 downtimes are acceptable, but extended unavailability can impact crawling. Short 503 downtimes are acceptable. Extended periods serving 503s harm crawling. Plan updates to ...

This is a topic we covered in the past, but I had the opportunity to remind you all, that Google prefers you use a server status code of 503, when your site is going down for maintenance. Googler, ...

There are multiple reasons why a business might need to disable one or more pages on its website. While you can simply remove the pages or change their content to explain that the page is temporarily ...

404, 301, 500… No, these aren’t just random digits. They indicate how your website performs and how search engines like Google view and rank your website. Below, I’ll break down the most common HTTP ...