How Long to Get Back in Google After Downtime?

Site outage, now not listed in google.

[snoz_woz]

Until recently we where highly listed in google search results. That is until 02 July 2005 10 days ago when we lost our internet connection for around 24hours. Since then we have been in and out (mainly out) of the search results. I have made the assumption that the loss of internet connection is the cause, could it be something else?
Also just by co-incidence at around the same time I did not pay our google ad-words bill as our bank card was stolen and I had to wait until I received a replacement. I doubt this was the cause as it was only outstanding for 7 days.

How long will i have to wait until we fully return?

[Clint]

I doubt it was downtime. The info is here:
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[snoz_woz]

if i do google search for "site:www.widget.com" then it lists the pages from our site but with no discription and cached content (now 12 days after), for example

www.widget.com/detailyq7181.jhtml
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www.widget.com/detailyq12028.jhtml
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www.widget.com/standardEquipmentyq907.jhtml
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www.widget.com/technicalSpecificationyq11632.jhtml
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[ramachandra]

Hey,

One of my site pages showing only the URL, no title, description but for my home page its showing title and description.

As far as I know displaying home page title and description means my site has not been penalised right?

Now I have changed internal linking structure and some backlinks added and I am waiting for googlebot to crawl and index pages.

[eyezshine]

That happened to me but to 4 sites at once that were on the same server that was down for about 24 hours.

All 4 sites were dropped from google and made supplimental results within days.

They have still not fully recovered yet and it has been allmost 9 months. It's like the sites were penalized for being down.

[snoz_woz]

UPDATE: i've seen pages come and go from the index, i now think the bourbon update is the cause, and not our site being down. i have now seen this with many other sites. i plan to read about bourbon now.

[grandpa]

Hi snoz_woz

Late in June my site was offline for the better part of a day, or at least the dynamic pages were. The Apache server was still up, but the PHP was not. Somehow I think the SE's understand server errors, as well as the possibility of temporary server outages. My site was unaffected in rankings after things were restored.

Try to keep in mind too that Google doesn't update their index as they have in the past. There are rolling updates performed all of the time. In other words, you might be seeing normal changes in a part of the index. That could be the reason for the changes that you see with your listings. I've seen the same sort of things with some of my pages in the past few months. It was temporary for me.

You haven't mentioned yet whether Googlebot is still crawling your pages. You might also want to consider using Google Sitemap to help ensure your pages are known to Google.

[MikeNoLastName]

What is the best way to PREPARE for downtime? If your ISP has announced an "upcoming scheduled maintenance" which is scheduled to last from 8-16 hours, while hardware is being moved, is there any way to "warn" the search engines not to visit during that time, that they'll get a non-response? Is there anything special you can tell the ISP to do on their end to ensure the proper response is returned to the search engines to let them know, you're just temporarily out of commission? What kind of response should it be?
The other alternative is to copy the server to a new physical piece of hardware in another location in advance, which would cause the IPs to change.

[walkman]

I blocked google on purpose once, and was back within 10 days.

[MikeNoLastName]

How'd you block it? via their IP on your router?