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    • Rank-and-Grow
      Rank-and-Grow last edited by

      Hello,

      I have a website http://www.fivestarstoneinc.com/ and earlier today I got an emil from webmaster tools saying "Googlebot cannot access your site"

      Wondering what the problem could be and how to fix it.

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      • davebuts
        davebuts last edited by

        There's nothing stopping the site from being crawled or indexed so I would say that your site just happened to be down when Googlebot attempted to crawl it.

        If downtime is a rare occurrence, this one time won't cause you any SEO-related issues and the message will be cleared in the next few days when the site is successfully crawled.

        You can track downtime with a tool like Pingdom and if it becomes an issue it would be worth looking into upgrading you web hosting.

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        • Rank-and-Grow
          Rank-and-Grow @davebuts last edited by

          Awesome, thanks for the answer

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