Consequences of server down during crawl?

How long till back in SERPS

[mindaugas13]

One of my sites got a PR0 all throughout and is not in the index. Been that way for over a month.

The old web company said that the server was down during a Google crawl and that site was dropped as a result (along with several others). If this is really the reason, how long would it take to get respidered and get back in the index?

I checked backlinks in the Google toolbar and there aren't any. Did Google drop it from the index permanently because of that? There was some obvious (but not over-heavy) on-page optimization done to the site. Just trying to figure out why it's not in the index and seeing if anybody knows how long it can take to get re-indexed if server was down (trying to eliminate that reason from the list)

[DerekH]

How long to get re-indexed? About the same time as it took to get indexed in the first place...
No, that's not a fatuous answer, because the time to get indexed, refreshed, updated.... they all depend on how popular Google thinks your site is - broadly, how many links to it.
A competitor of mine lost their website when their server was attacked, and their site was replaced by an Apache welcome page while the site was reloaded. Google, of course, indexed the Apache page, seemingly the moment it arrived, whereas the replacement site stayed unvisited for almost 3 weeks. That was probably unfortunate to hit the two extremes, both unfavourably, but the message is the same - if Google likes your site because the web likes your site, you'll be reindexed quickly.

Use the time to get more links, better content - no amount of worrying will improve the reindex time, but links and content will...
DerekH

[isitreal]

I had a similar problem, a programming error on one section of my site triggered only when a spider crawled it (no, not a cloaking script, just a coincidence), that part of the site is now out of google, the other top parts are still listed, I'm waiting to see how long it takes to get back in too, it's been about 5 days now since those search terms dropped from top 10 to nothing, at first I thought it might be a penalty, but there's nothing to penalize on the page as far as I know, then I found the programming error that was delivering just error code to the search bots, the error code was well ranked for a few weeks when searching for the old key words...

[patoruzu]

Some time ago my site dissapeared from the index for a month, following a change of hosting service. In other words, Google lost my site. I wrote to Google and they answered that they would find the site again if there were some links to it. The site reappeared with the following crawl. So just be sure that you have some backlinks.