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    • PremioOscar
      PremioOscar last edited by

      Hello guys,

      My website hasn't been reachable for couple of hours today and I can't really understand why as no links have been built, all the best practices have been followed  regarding on page optimization.

      I also checked google webmaster tools and there are no warning messages, crawl problems or anything so I don't understand why this has happened.

      Now for some reason the website is up and running again.

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      • Martijn_Scheijbeler
        Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

        You're Web sites down time has nothing to do with links, on page issues or any related stuff to SEO. Sites mostly go down to issues in the code or server itself or due to extensive load on the server.

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        • KevinBudzynski
          KevinBudzynski last edited by

          Martijn is correct. Most likely (if nothing changed) a server issue. If it's just a few hours, most likely a server outage. If that wasn't it, your hosting company took you down for some reason. If it wasn't server related, it could be a dns issue or an incorrect .htaccess file, or possibly an internal issue from your location (firewall prevented you from viewing the site). Webmaster tools do not catch everything and if it was just a few hours, probably didn't (unless you get indexed frequently).

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