What can/will happen ...

If my site is down @ crawl time?

[ideavirus]

Hello,

One of my sites which has a PR5 is down, b'cos i am moving to a new server.

I am not worried as to what can happen to my site in google if the crawl starts before i take my site live on the new server?

Thanks for your feedback.

[jeremy goodrich]

Well, the freshbot might notice you are down...but, if you're down at 'deepcrawl time' you risk getting dropped from the serps.

[Laurel]

Yes! I think that Jeremy is right.

I am pretty sure that's what happened to me last January.

I had a PR5 and many other pages scattered all over Google and Yahoo.
Now I am down to 1 page listed on page 2.

I am praying to the Google Gods as I type this.