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My Site Disappeared from the Google Index!

Your site's down time may cause your removal

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

20th of February 2007, 09:34 GMT

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One of the most important elements for a webmaster is his website's position in Google because the search giant owns the best search engine on the Internet and it is able to send numerous visitors to the site. That's why some web designers are continuously optimizing their pages according to Google's terms, a company that checks all of them periodically. As you might know, the GoogleBot crawls a certain page to check its elements or changes and sends
all of them to the Google database. But, what happens when a website is down for maintenance or because of multiple hosting problems?

Very often, the GoogleBot records your page as missing and removes it from the Google index because the search engine doesn't provide access to unavailable webpages. So, what is the procedure to get your page back in Google after it was removed for this reason?

"If the host is down when Googlebot tries to access your pages, then those pages may disappear from the index until Googlebot can crawl them again. In webmaster tools, do the pages you want indexed appear in the crawl errors section? If so, then Googlebot was unable to access them. You're right that requesting reinclusion is only for sites that have violated the guidelines. This isn't the situation in your case, and there's no need to contact us to let us know that your site has moved and is available again, as Googlebot will keep rechecking for it automatically," Vanessa Fox, Google employee, posted in a special Google Groups discussion.

A simple conclusion? There is no need to contact the search giant to inform about the availability of your website or fill in a reinclusion form and send it to Google. The only thing you should do is to wait for the GoogleBot to crawl you website and send the updated information to Google's database.
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