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I've to do some big works to my website, so I've to put it offline for some hours, but I don't want to lose my rank in google. I've read this tutorial: http://www.branded3.com/blogs/handle-googlebot-during-site-downtime/ This is the correct procedure, right?

I've also another question. Where should I put this code?

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable");
header("Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable");
header("Retry-After: 3600");
php?>

In the index.php, ora in a new page named errorpage.php in the root? Google will find this automatically?

Thanks!

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It depends on your application. If your application has a front controller like WordPress, then you can use index.php to make the complete site offline, since all requests go via index.php.

If your application consists of individual PHP files, then you have to put the code to each file.

Tero Kilkanen
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