Google and Downtime
2009-09-14
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the method of optimising your web site so that it appears as high up in the rankings of search engines as possible. Downtime is extremely important when it comes to SEO.
Many search engines, like Google, will reduce your rank dramatically if they find that your web site is offline - afterall, they want their users to have the best experience, so why would they show results to a web site that is offline?
Use downtime alerts to ensure that your web site is kept online for the maximum amount of time possible. We use the latest technology to try and ensure we check against every eventuality we can to make sure you know your web site is offline as soon as possible. Minutes can mean you keep the customer happy and get that all important sale, it can also mean - if you’re unfortunate enough for Google to be crawling your page when your site is offline - that your web site isn’t punished for being offline.