Traffic hit after server downtime?

[megatabbers]

Question to you SEO/SERP guys:

I had extended downtime this week (~28 hours) and since I'm back online my traffic is basically half of what it was. Is this some kind of fucked up Google penalty or am I just being paranoid? And if the former, how long do such penalties last?

FUCK!

 

[casinobonus24]

Maybe you got unlucky and google crawled your site while the server was down ? I know from some examples that this kind of stuff usually results in rankings drops, so you might got hit by this.

 

[ii silver ii]

If you have extended downtime try and have some sort of temporary 307 maintenance page if it's that important to you! Then the serps should be more lenient.

If the sites a few years old you'll probably find you regain your terms in a few days.

 

[Insomniac]

Punishment for downtime can last up to four weeks in my experience. After that, everything should return to normal.