Hello everyone, Today we are going to share 70+ Website Under Maintenance Templates. Use these 100% responsive & Free Under Construction Templates, Maintenance Mode Templates, Holding Page Templates, Placeholder Templates, Domain Park Templates, Coming Soon website templates for your website. A collection of 867 Creative Commons-licensed CSS, HTML5 and Responsive site templates created by Cherry, Doni, AJ, and co. Free Website Under Maintenance Templates. So here we decided to collect some free 65+ Website Under Maintenance Templates which may save your time & energy. In this post I will explain how to handle cases of planned downtime. That is, a short period of time wherein you purposely make your website inaccessible. This can be due to significant changes to the site or because of server maintenance. It should always be the last resort to make the entire website inaccessible, but in some cases it can be necessary. Below you will find suggestions as to how to proceed with SEO in mind. Tell both humans and robots that it's only a temporary shutdown. In the case of a temporary shutdown, one should always inform both humans (visitors) and robots (search engines) so that they are aware that it is a planned closure, and that it is just temporary. If possible one should also state when the website is expected to be back online. This will ensure that both humans and robots will return at a later time to find what they expected to find in the first place. There are two mistakes often seen when a website is made temporarily unavailable: Mistake 1 - All files are removed from the server. When both humans and robots attempt to find the website, it will result in a 404 error, which means that the requested page cannot be found. This informs neither humans nor search engines on what is actually happening. One will typically be shown a page that looks something like this: The worst case scenario is that people will think the website no longer exists, and will therefore give up trying to find it again. Search engines handle this situation in a similar fashion. To them, a 404 error means that the page no longer exists, and it will in time be deleted from their index. Mistake 2 - A simple page is put on the server with a short message explaining the closure. An alternative solution to the one above is to remove all files and then put one very simple file on the server that explains why the website is closed in one or two sentences. All the old pages are then redirected to this file. This method may tell humans what the problem is, but it still makes no sense to the search engines. The search engines can in fact become so confused by this that they believe that the temporary state of the website – the few sentences explaining the problem – is the permanent website in future. Depending on how the redirection of the other pages has been carried out, one also risks the search engines thinking that all the other pages of the website have been (re)moved, and that only the front page is to be ranked in search results. This is a sure way to lose rankings. ![]() ![]() Briefly on HTTP Status codes Every time you visit a website your browser receives a message from the server that hosts the website. This message is called a HTTP Status code. As a SEO it is necessary to understand what the most important codes mean. 200 OK - The request has succeeded. This is the standard response for successful HTTP requests. 301 Moved Permanently - The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent location. ![]() This and all future requests should be directed to the given location. This status code is used for 301 redirects. In most instances, the 301 redirect is the best method for implementing redirects on a website. A 301 redirect will pass most, if not all the linkjuice from the original location. 302 Found - The requested resource resides temporarily at a different location. By using a 302 redirect instead of a 301, search engines will know that this is only a temporary state. No appreciable amount of linkjuice will be passed. ![]()
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