Website was offline 4 days, what about rankings in search engines?

[Runfun]

Due to a fault at the host my website was offline for 4 days last week. Does this permanently affect my rankings in the search engines? My website is almost 10 years old, I've both a forum and blog at the same domain and last weekend I've made several improvements for cumulative layout shift, updating the sitemap, asked for indexing again and raised the crawlspeed.

Most important are my rankings and if a drop will be permanent or temporary?

[lammert]

With four days the result is probably only temporary. I remember some old patents of Google mentioning a 30 day period. A recent discussion [webmasterworld.com] about Google's improvements of robots.txt parsing also mentions a 30 day grace period for 503 Unavailable errors.

[martinibuster]

That will not be a problem. I've had one of my sites go down for weeks, several times over the years, and there were no ranking problems associated with it. Google did a breathtakingly amazing job picking up all the URLs and ranking them back where they belonged.

[JorgeV]

Hello,

Google is pretty tolerant about this can of issue, especially if your site has a good background history.