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I don't have a 503 header but Google displays "Site under maintenance". How to remove it?

I was working on the website and it displayed a maintenance page, which didn't contain a 503 header...

header("HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable");
header("Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable");
header("Retry-After: 3600");

Now, when searching for my site on Google it displays the title of the maintenance page, which is "SITENAME: Site under maintenance". I think, this probably because Google indexed my site during the maintenance?!?

How can I remove it as soon as possible?

Solution

  • Quickest way is to register the site under webmaster tools and request a removal then a crawl on the site.