Moving webserver to another country and downtime

[helgeolaussen]

Hi all,

We are going to move our server location to another country, and our webpage will be down for about 24 hours.

Is there anything that I should be aware of with SEO while doing this?
Any way to tell SE that our site will be down, without having alot of errors in Webmaster tools etc?

Best regards,

Ceran

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Ceran,

Yes you should be aware of a couple of things, for example you need to give the right status codes while you're down. You could do this with a status code 503 which is used mostly for handling maintenance on your server. Yoast wrote a pretty good article about handling site maintenance and how to be aware of SEO while doing this. The article could be found here. I mostly liked his pro tip about the robots.txt.

Hope this helps and good luck!

[helgeolaussen]

Hey Martjin,

Thank you very much for you answer.
Great article.