http://ask.metafilter.com/47663/My-advisor-will-kill-my-thesis-if-I-get-his-site-blacklisted/ Comments on Ask MetaFilter post My advisor will kill my thesis if I get his site blacklisted Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:42:27 -0800 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:42:27 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/47663/My-advisor-will-kill-my-thesis-if-I-get-his-site-blacklisted Working on a website with an identical mirror site on the other side of the planet; how can I prevent the mirror from splitting the pagerank credit in search engines? <br /><br /> This is an educational project and I do not have direct access to the other server. I currently am planning on having the other admin implement 301 redirects for the main pages and reference articles while maintaining the mirror for the more bandwidth intensive portions of the site. Is there a more elegant solution that won't require installation of new software packages? Scripting languages are available if need be. Does anyone know how plato.stanford.edu manages it (I have asked, they haven't responded)? post:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.47663 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:14:25 -0800 arruns mirror google pagerank website redirection misdirection http://ask.metafilter.com/47663/My-advisor-will-kill-my-thesis-if-I-get-his-site-blacklisted#725284 Assuming the site is not dynamic and the mirror is kept updated, I suggest round-robin DNS, where your hostname resolves to the main server's IP 50% of the time and the mirror server's IP 50% of the time. comment:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.47663-725284 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:42:27 -0800 trevyn http://ask.metafilter.com/47663/My-advisor-will-kill-my-thesis-if-I-get-his-site-blacklisted#725393 The site is static and the mirror is updated. Round-robin is likely the best solution for pagerank, however, the only value for the mirror is geographic response time (server load is low), and I may avoid round-robin for that reason. comment:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.47663-725393 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:34:38 -0800 arruns http://ask.metafilter.com/47663/My-advisor-will-kill-my-thesis-if-I-get-his-site-blacklisted#725400 When Google comes a-crawling, send the redirect. Otherwise send the page content. comment:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.47663-725400 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:41:07 -0800 kindall http://ask.metafilter.com/47663/My-advisor-will-kill-my-thesis-if-I-get-his-site-blacklisted#725799 You can do a <a href="http://wiki.blitzed.org/DNS_balancing">geographic DNS</a>, but maybe that's more work than you want to put into it.<br> <br> webmasterworld.com is kind of snooty and pisses me off in general, but there's some excellent information there about how to fuck with Google. comment:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.47663-725799 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:07:20 -0800 trevyn