Thursday, December 9, 2021

Website maintenance mode - can it hurt for a few hours?

I run a pretty high-traffic ecommerce site. There's going to be a period of time when a 3rd-party service will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance, which will make most of my site inoperable.

My plan to avoid confusion for customers is to just do a 307 redirect to a maintenance page when someone visits the site (on any page).

My main concern is, can this affect SEO if it's a 6-hour block of time?

And my other question is, on the maintenance page, would it look odd to search engines if i have a noindex robots tag on it, like this?

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/> 

Thanks!

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