Google Official Tips On Closing A Site For Days

We’ve talked a lot about sites that close down once a week or more for religious purposes, specifically closing on Shabbat. We were concerned about how GoogleBot handles it, will rankings drop and what about sites that show interstitials as a message to their customers about being closed, will they be hit by the penalty ? Well, Google’s John Mueller who has been fielding most of these questions wrote on the Google blog closing down for the day and three options webmasters have for dealing with such issues.