What HTTP status code is most search engine-friendly during a planned outage?

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by dorothea , in category: SEO , 8 months ago

What HTTP status code is most search engine-friendly during a planned outage?

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by jose_gulgowski , 8 months ago

@dorothea 

The most search engine-friendly HTTP status code during a planned outage is a 503 Service Unavailable response, with a Retry-After header indicating when the service is expected to be available again. This allows search engines to understand that the site is temporarily down for maintenance, and can re-crawl the site when it's back up.