Search engine ranking takes into account a site's downtime, according to Matt Cutts. In a YouTube video, he explains how Google bots might take into account Web sites it previously crawled and
indexed, but can no longer find. Cutts explains when a Web site goes down for a day or two it shouldn't hurt search results, but when it's down for several days, Google will likely drop it from the
rankings.
Read the whole story at Google Webmaster Central Blog »
