Do sever errors affect SERPS

[mutant2008]

hoping someone can help

VPS has been causing me 10 days of server errors (im now moving off it) as my wordpress site has kept running out of memory. At the same time my traffic had dropped. Could google and bing be penalising me for number of errors, dropping me in SERPS and resulting in web traffic?

[crackingmedia]

Hi, the occasional server error won't affect your site in SERPs, but persistent issues over a shorter period of time are likely to. With this you would also be likely to see those errors reported in Google Webmaster Tools.

Essentially, if the search engines cannot index a site then they don't have anything to include in SERPs.

I hope that helps,
Peter

[nurzhyk]

To make the first answer full you must understand that if your site will not load quickly and correctly it will harm on behaviour factors which you can see in Google Analytics. Users will close your site faster and come back searching for other content to read. And this can be a sign for Google that your site is a low quality one.

[FedeEinhorn]

Google's Matt Cutts posted a video about this exact issue you might want to check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYJuT0yGrI

Hope that helps!

[mutant2008]

thanks alot - the issue is now solved so everything is back faster and better than ever.