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SEO and Server Connectivity....
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Good Morning/Evening Mozzers,
I arrive at work this morning with 5 emails from GWT for my separate domains reading,
**"Googlebot can't access your site - **Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 39 errors while attempting to connect to your site. Your site's overall connection failure rate is 15.1%."
I have passed this on to the Web Dev team to resolve ASAP.
My Question, will server connectivity issues harm my rankings? Is there a danger if this continues that URL's could be de-indexed?
Input would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for responding guys....
After some back and forth and research from the Web Dev team, turns out our hosts messed up when upgrading RAM to our host server.....site was down for 3 hours overnight.
All appears to be fine now but will keep my eyes peeled.
Thanks
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Hey,
I was working with a site recently who's host suffered a number of issues over a few days, enough to receive a few warnings in GWT - and yes there was a hit to the rankings in the short term. However once their host got their game together the rankings did creep back up, although it took around a month of normal up-time for the ranking to largely recover.
As Greg says i'd definitely ensure you're on a good host, server downtime should be the last thing you need to be worrying about!
All the best,
Stuart
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Yes it does effect your rankings.
I cant say how much, but is definately a factor that Google considers when ranking your pages.
Make sure you are using a reliable host as not only Google gets mad when pages become unavailable.
Greg
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