SEO Tip #74: Can a Sites Downtime Affect Its Ranking?
Matt Cutts: Okay, this is getting a little fixated on the idea of PageRank and maybe leaving aside rankings. So again, PageRank only depends links; it’s the ranking that might be affected.
So let’s talk through it a little bit. Your website goes down; what should Google do? Let’s play the game of step into Google’s shoes. We try to crawl a webpage that we’ve been able to reach in the
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