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Re: IPv6 SEO implecations?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arturo Servin)
Tue Mar 29 12:53:01 2011

From: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:41:09 +0200
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To: "nanog@nanog.org Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 29 Mar 2011, at 00:18, Wil Schultz wrote:

> I'm attempting to find out information on the SEO implications of =
testing ipv6 out.
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> A couple of concerns that come to mind are:
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> 1) www.domain.com and ipv6.domain.com are serving the exact same =
content.=20
> 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.
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> 2) Not running ipv6 natively, or using 6to4.=20
> This (potentially) increases hop count and will put content on a =
slower GRE tunnel and add some additional time for page load times.=20
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> 3) ??? Any others that I haven't thought of ???
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> So basically I'd love to set up some sites for ipv6.domain.com via =
6to4 as a phase one, and at some point in the near future implement ipv6 =
natively inside the datacenter, but I'm somewhat concerned about =
damaging SEO reputation in the process.=20
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> Thoughts?
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> -wil

	Twitter said:

http://twitter.com/#!/look4ipv6/status/24639157611528193

	Al least you would have a better page-rank in www.example.com =
than in ipv6.example.com with the same content.

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