Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with '503'

Stop GoogleBot From Indexing You At Busy Times

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a member upset that Google is crawling his site during times when his server is overloaded. Is there a way to tell GoogleBot to stay away during these times? JohnMu of Google said, yes...

Site Downtime & Worried About Google? Return 503 Status Code

This is a topic we covered in the past, but I had the opportunity to remind you all, that Google prefers you use a server status code of 503, when your site is going down for maintenance. Googler, JohnMu, reminds...

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