B and Q We'll be Back Soon Notice
This is dumb from both a marketing and SEO perspective.
SEO wise Google will index this notice for every webpage they index while the site is down for maintenance: this could damage SERPs.
Marketing wise this is an amateur move, what sort of multi-million pound business takes a website offline to do an upgrade.
Upgrades should be seamless, barely noticeable, NOT take a site out of action so customers can’t complete orders!!!
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