When you are updating a WordPress blog or making any changes to the themes, plugins or functionality, it is a good practice to use a maintenance message plugin. This plugin will simply generate a coming soon page and you can also display counters on when the blog will be back online. Your users will know that you are working on something. If you have many visitors in your blog … [Read more...]
Blog May Lose Search Engine Rankings When It Is Offline
Google's bot and other search engine bots keep crawling your blog in a timely fashion. When, they see that your blog is offline in their visits, they start dropping your blog from the SERPs. The reason behind that is only a blog or a site can have rankings not a 404 page. Nobody wants a blog to be offline but it happens when you are upgrading your blog with some updates or when … [Read more...]