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: What is best practice for search engines when a website is under maintenance? I need around a week to transition a heavily data-driven website from one back end to another. During that time

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I need around a week to transition a heavily data-driven website from one back end to another. During that time I do plan to attempt to keep some pages live, but they won't all work well or look brilliant. Some pages won't work at all.

What is the best way to ensure I don't scare Google? Should I hide everything from robots.txt, or mark everything that doesn't work as "503", or are there other things that I should be considering?

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@Alves908

503 everything is the best strategy I can think of, together with a retry after HTTP header.

Source: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.il/2011/01/how-to-deal-with-planned-site-downtime.html

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