Google Search Central is urging site owners taking servers offline for emergency PHP patches to return a 503 status code, so already indexed URLs stay in the index instead of being dropped. Serving 200 error pages or 404s during downtime risks losing those listings, and crawl rates stay reduced until responses normalise. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-reminds-sites-to-serve-503s-during-server-downtime/593873/ #Marketing #Strategy #SEO
Search Engine JournalGoogle Reminds Sites To Serve A 503 During PHP Patch DowntimeTaking a site offline to patch PHP? Serve a 503 from outside PHP and keep robots.txt reachable. Days of server errors may get URLs dropped.