How long will Google wait...?
ok a client and friend of ours has been backed into a bad position by their (incredibly unprofessional Ibiza-based) web company here, who orginally built their site for them nearly 3 years ago.
an awful lot of money was paid for a pretty but very badly performing site which when I started working on it 10 months ago was lucky to be receiving 5 visits a week. over this time we have dragged it up the charts until its now appearing first page for several of their big terms and has been generating business and referrals steadily for a good while now
all sounds good yes? well, except that in a financial dispute over hosting & maintenance rates, they just shut the site off 2 days ago, now showing 404 errors.
the dispute is irreconcilable and site is being handed over on a CD with authentication codes for a domain transfer (allegedly) this afternoon. we're going to re-host and get it up again ASAP but knowing Spanish manyana type attitude I have doubts about how quickly it will be back up.
so the question is once a site goes down, how long before Google will give up on it completely? I know obviously when they recache etc rankings will fall of the face of the earth, (better than customers getting 404's to be fair) but if it took a few weeks, but was then reinstated exactly the same, is it rescuable rankings wise?
presumably if all IBLs / content are the same, it should get back to where it was naturally at some point?
whats the longest gaps in service people have seen or had and still come back from?
|