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Doing this is pretty critical for SEO in a situation like this, and these businesses tend to live and die by search traffic.

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That's a great point I hadn't considered. I guess they are redirecting all pages to this announcement and, by using a 503, the search results will not be impacted.

Even so, maybe a temporary redirect, i.e. 307, would be better maybe?

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