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Googlebot crawling and sites down

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satanclaus

9:36 pm on Jul 31, 2002 (gmt 0)



Sites of mine were moved from machine to machine and differences in webserver configuration caused the sites to serve error pages until a few hours ago when I discovered and fixed the problem. The spider will most likely return in the next couple of days and recieve the proper HTML files but I'm wondering what effect this error will have?

Anyone ever experience something similar? Will Google take the proper files for the next update or can I expect to be #1 for apache misconfiguration for the month of August?

ciml

1:12 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



You might be listed with the error message for a cycle (about four weeks) starting at the end of August update; you might be dropped if you served duplicate content to other similarly misconfigured servers or if your server returned an HTTP error status; you might be listed OK.

If the domain is now on a different IP address, and the previous one no longer returns your content when asked for it, then you might expect problems for longer. No one seems to know how long it takes for the DNS to be refreshed but GoogleGuy indicated a while ago that they had improved their DNS expiry times.