Google’s John Mueller says a website going down temporarily likely won’t have a negative impact on search rankings.
This is stated in response to a Reddit thread titled: “Can I recover lost Google rankings after almost 5 days of downtime?”
In short — the answer is yes! But lets go over the background details first.
The site owner on Reddit notes their organic search traffic was growing steadily before a technical issue took the website offline. After getting it back up and running it’s lost 10,000 organic visits per day.
