Site went offline now out of index.

Now I'm back up and running. Will I be respidered or am I doomed forever?

[askjoe]

My site went down for about a month - long story. Needless to say I've made a lot of modifications to it and now I'm back up and running. However, when I type in my url on google all that comes up is the link to the apache server - my temporary home page. I guess that's all google saw when I was offline.

My question is this, will google respider my website and include it's findings in the next index or have I been basically removed for good? I still have a lot of very high PR sites linking to me and I'm receiving decent traffic from them, but nothing like what google can produce.

Thanks for your help.

[takagi]

There is no reason to think your site is "removed for good". The site is still at the same IP address, or did you change your hosting company? If the IP address changed, it could take a little longer (although not that long) before Google will spider your current pages. You might be able to speed-up the process by submitting [google.com] your home page and maybe a few sub pages to Google. No guarantee that it will help, but it is the only thing you can do right now. Google still knows the links pointing to your site, so eventually it will find the current home page and sub pages anyway. Well, getting some links from pages frequently spidered by freshbot can help too, but the behaviour of the bots is changed since the Esmeralda update, so it is hard to tell now. Of course having some extra inbound links (preferably on relevant sites) is always good. Especially for the time Google has no information on your site.

[GoogleGuy]

askjoe, your site should come back after we find/crawl it and insert it into our index again.

best wishes,
GoogleGuy