503 redirect

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:question4:I did a search and can't find info on 503 redirect information.

I was hoping some friendly members can help a noob out.


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Background info:

I took all the content off my site 3 days ago, and hired someone to redo the content. The content is taking longer than expected.

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Today I read an article from a google associate about the SOPA demonstrations.

Many large corporations/companies are blacking out their web presence to protest SOPA.

The article went on to say that it will hurt search rankings when google bots come knocking and see nothing.

It said to make a 503 redirct to say the site is temp down and google bots will not penalize the site.

I see lots of people talking about 301 on here but I'm not sure if it's the same as 503, I don't think so.

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Main question:

I can't figure it out.

I have an html site 4-5 pages, what is the code I use for 503 redirect, where do I place it???? I asked my host and they said they don't know and that usually redirect code goes in robots.txt but couldn't tell me where it was. I use hostgator. I just don't want to lose rank while my site is being worked on.

Additionally, would it be easier to just say nofollow for 31 days, and then send my site to google when it's updated? What happens when you say nofollow for 31 days on googles end? Do they still scan the site that day and come back in 31 days (obviously)... I just don't want them to see no content.


If anyone could help me.. I'd appreciate it... I just can't wrap my head around what I need to do.
 


Are you looking for a 301 redirect? This is the most common. I've never heard of a 503.

My guess is that most people will be using a 301 redirect for their websites temporarily in order to take part in the SOPA protests.
 
503 is HTTP service unavailable, it's not a redirect but is configured with a redirect directive, I think but won't test if you have htaccess available all you need is:

Code: 
Redirect 503 /

in htaccess
 
google looks different at each code,
with 503 they will be back to crawl
301 they won't or will go to the new directed site

from what i understand anyway
 
JCash said:
503 is HTTP service unavailable, it's not a redirect but is configured with a redirect directive, I think but won't test if you have htaccess available all you need is:

Code: 
Redirect 503 /
in htaccess
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okay , that looks EASY i will look at it

thank you!!
 
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