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503 Service Unavailable

An HTTP status code signaling that the web server is temporarily down for maintenance or severely overloaded, politely instructing search crawlers to return at a later time.

Tip from Sanoop: Always test your 503 Service Unavailable settings under a staging environment. Inspecting your crawls via GSC will prevent indexing blocks.

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