Site offline - Mitigating measures?

[BaseKit]

Hi,

Our domain has expired, and it could take up to 48h to recover our website. Appart from the obvious image damage, It worries me Google will just think we have vanisheg

Any recommendations? Maybe update something on WebMasterTools? Not having the domain, cannot even do any temporary redirect, etc...

Thanks!

Jaime

[KLLC]

Hello,

If you already have started domain renew process, then don't worry about Google. Don't do anything in Google webmaster tools, just wait for your domain to be activated. Google will re-crawl your site and update it accordingly.

[RuthBurrReedy]

Oh that's a bummer!  Unfortunately since you don't own the domain right now there's not a ton to be done.  Fortunately, 48 hours isn't SO bad.  Google will re-crawl you when you re-launch (keep a close eye to make sure they do so correctly and all your pages get indexed), and you'll probably see a bit of a dip in traffic/rankings for a bit, but you should recover within a month or two.

I'd spend this time thinking up some ways to quickly earn some new links - maybe a new piece of content, or building some new relationships? That will mitigate the effects from this.  Good luck!