What happens if my site was down for 10 hours?

[jgenesto]

Hello,

We have a fairly large site. Due to an attack it was taken down for about 10 hours.

We have finally been able to resolve the security issues, restore the code and put everything back online.

Now, we are a little bit worried about what GoogleBot will think of us. We have been working hard during the past months to get a better SEO. Should we be worried?

[zeepartner]

10 hours shouldn't pose a problem - i've had no worries even with longer downtime. googlebot won't even have tried to access most of your pages in that time, so i'm sure only a fraction of pages was unaccessible for the bot during the downtime (namely those it had on crawl schedule then).

to be sure, you can always check the crawl stats on GWT and see if there is any significant change.

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Julien,

I think Philipp B is right with the fact that 10 hours shouldn't pose a problem. I too have experienced much longer down time and this hasn't caused me any problems in relation to site ranking on Google. I would however check GWT as already suggested - that way you can see what pages weren't available during your down time and check the impact.

[SeoExpertos]

I had some of my sites down for 24 hours, and no problem at all.

But if your site is down more times, then this can be a problem.

Good luck!