[139163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 SEO implecations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Mon Mar 28 18:45:32 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:47:10 -0500
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
To: Wil Schultz <wschultz@bsdboy.com>
In-Reply-To: <5F63749D-6CFC-4723-89F3-3129D30888C2@bsdboy.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:18:30 -0700
Wil Schultz <wschultz@bsdboy.com> wrote:
> I'm attempting to find out information on the SEO implications of
> testing ipv6 out.
>
> A couple of concerns that come to mind are:
>
> 1) www.domain.com and ipv6.domain.com are serving the exact same
> content. Typical SEO standards are to only serve good content from a
> single domain so information isn't watered down and so that the
> larger search engines won't penalize. So a big concern is having
> search results take a hit because content is duplicated through two
> different domains, even though one domain is ipv4 only and the other
> is ipv6 only.
>
> 2) Not running ipv6 natively, or using 6to4.
> This (potentially) increases hop count and will put content on a
> slower GRE tunnel and add some additional time for page load times.
>
> 3) ??? Any others that I haven't thought of ???
If you are so concerned about SEO, just dual-stack your site. It works
well for me.
William
