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Hi,

In Global Configuration I set the website to Offline, and I have put an article in the offline message box. Now my website is effectively an one-article page.

I thought that Google would index this front page with the article content, but it didn’t.
Not only I couldn’t find the page in Google using exact keywords in my article, my website was not shown in Google’s results even when I searched with my exact domain name.

Before the Offline mode, the website was indexed and ranked in Google. I know when it’s set to offline (meaning the whole website only has one article in the the front page) it should not rank high but it should still be in somewhere in the results. But the fact is now the website is completely gone (de-indexed).

Is the Offline mode doing something that is changing my .htaccess or other setting files to prevent Google bots from indexing my front page?

Thanks.

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It’s difficult to give solution to you as Google automated “spiders” crawls the web on a regular basis and find sites to add to their index. In fact, the majority of sites are found and added automatically when our spiders crawl the web, not via manual submission.

A site can be crawled/indexed within 4 days to 4 weeks (depend the ranking of your site). In some cases, it may take longer.

You can instruct Google to crawl a page or site with steps below:

1) On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site your site.
2) On the Dashboard, under Crawl, click Fetch as Google.
3) In the text box, type the path to the page you want to check.
4) In the dropdown list, select Web. (You can select another type of page, but currently Google only accepts submissions for their Web Search index.)
5) Click Fetch. Google will fetch the URL you requested. It may take up to 10 or 15 minutes for Fetch status to be updated.
6) Once you see a Fetch status “Successful”, click Submit to Index, and then click one of the following:

• To submit the individual URL to Google’s index, select URL and click Submit. You can submit up to 500 URLs a week in this way.
• To submit the URL and all pages linked from it, click URL and all linked pages. You can submit up to 10 of these requests a month.

Hope that helps.

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#517189

That’s the problem.
When my site is set to Offline in Global Configurations, whenever I use the Fetch as Google for my frontpage, it returns “Unreachable page” in the Fetch Status.
Clicking on the detail of the error, it shows that the header of my frontpage html begins with “HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable”.

Is there a way to have my site in offline mode, but not set to “Service not available” so that Google can still index my Under Construction front page?

Thanks.

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#517222

You should try some extensions from Joomla Extension Directory

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