Thunderstorm knocked my sites off the Net

How long before I am adversely affected in the SERPs?

[berto]

An early morning thunderstorm knocked my websites off the Net today. My DSL service provider is sending a tech tomorrow morning to fix the problem. Hopefully.

How long can my sites be off the Net before I am adversely affected in the Google SERPs? (Pardon me if this is a FAQ.)

If this turns into a days-long outage (unlikely), and if I drop in the SERPs, what can I do to recover?

This outage really sucks, because SEO efforts in the previous week had my site traffic beginning to surge yesterday.

[mack]

Search engines have an understanding that things can go wrong. What you may find is a quick drop in position , but a quick recovery. I had a few days downtime about a month ago and pretty much dissapeared from the index. Google bot was back on the scene the next day and ranking returned very soon.

Mack.