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How does Google handle Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error?

         

security56

4:11 pm on Nov 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I was wondering how google handles Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error page, I recently reach my limit for the first time in my hosting career lol, anyways The problem is the google seems to index my site every 5 days and unfortunately either today or tomorrow I will be index,

Will google see this and just ignore it or will it list the error page as my main page in the search results.

Thanks

tedster

3:35 am on Nov 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

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If there is only one day or so of trouble for googlebot getting a response, this normally does not create any problem with rankings. Googlebot just returns later, gets an accurate response from your server, and you stay in business.

jdMorgan

3:48 am on Nov 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

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The critical question is: What is the response that Google sees? If it's a 200-OK response with some "Bandwidth exceeded" page content, then you may indeed get ranked for that, and tanked for your real keywords. If it's a 503 Service Unavailable response, then Google will know not to index that content.

Fix the root problem... Either get a better service level, get a better host, or address some of the content that is consuming the most bandwidth. Take advantage of compression, caching -- whatever you can to reduce the load.

Jim

security56

4:19 am on Nov 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Thanks guys
The site will only be down for 1 day and a half, by Dec. 1st should be up.
one thing the error it got is 509 is that the same as 503?

yea I'm going have to get the dedicate server the site got much bigger then I ever expected that's a good thing lol, is webmasterworld.com fault for teaching me how to make it big :)