SEJ Shares Five Ways To Prepare For Site Closure

Closing a site indicates that the site is no longer in use and can eventually be deleted according to a schedule. Search Engine Journal contributor Matt G. Southern has shared five ways to prepare for a site closure. He says, “More detail about these recommendations and how to deal with the negative impact of taking a site offline is explained in the following sections. 1. HTTP 503 Status Code When taking a website offline, ensure it serves an HTTP 503 status code to web crawlers. When web crawlers like Googlebot encounter a 503 status code, they understand the site is unavailable and may... [...]