Title: HTTP error 503
Last modified: February 4, 2019

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# HTTP error 503

 *  Resolved [cag8f](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cag8f/)
 * (@cag8f)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-503-2/)
 * Hello. If I activate your plugin, my site reports an HTTP 503 Service Unavailable
   Error. Will this be detrimental to my page ranking if a search engine crawls 
   my site and sees this error? If so, is there a way to resolve that?
 * Maybe I edit the “Robots Meta Tag” field in Settings–>WP Maintenance Mode–>General?
   Mine is currently at ‘noindex, nofollow.’
 * Thanks.

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 *  [George J](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgejipa/)
 * (@georgejipa)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-503-2/#post-11166020)
 * Hello [@cag8f](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cag8f/),
 * If you see an [HTTP 503 Service Unavailable Error](https://imgur.com/a/QfVDWUH)
   page instead of the maintenance mode page, I recommend asking your hosting provider
   support to disable their default 503 error page.
 * Also, I think you should read this great article posted by Yoast: [https://yoast.com/http-503-site-maintenance-seo/](https://yoast.com/http-503-site-maintenance-seo/)
 * >  503 Service unavailable. This is the one you want to be returning to Google
   > when you’re dealing with site maintenance. It tells Google that you are in 
   > fact working on this page or that something else went wrong. Google knows that
   > when this status code is returned, to check the page again later on. This is
   > what we’ll be discussing a bit more.
 * Thanks,
    George
 *  Thread Starter [cag8f](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cag8f/)
 * (@cag8f)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-503-2/#post-11166132)
 * OK thanks for that article. In light of that, I think it would be beneficial 
   for the 503 error to remain in-place. Let’s consider this resolved for now, thanks.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-503-2/#post-11166132)
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