: Should I use rel="nofollow" on links from mirror sites to avoid a possible link scheme I host a network of service websites that consists of 1 main website and several mirrored websites under
I host a network of service websites that consists of 1 main website and several mirrored websites under different domains; think torrent, proxy, or download sites. Users come to my service but there is a possibility that my main domain is blocked by their internet service provider or some sort of school or work filter. Therefore the service I offer is available from many different domains and IP addresses.
My main site has all unique content and proper SEO while all of the mirror sites share the same content which is different from the main site to avoid duplicate content issues for the main site.
My main site is indexed and ranked well in search engines while my mirror sites are not. I have no intention for the mirrors sites to ever get ranked they are only provided as a means to be able to access my service if the main domain is inaccessible.
I like to place links to my main site from all of my mirror sites.
My question is should I use rel="nofollow" on all of my mirror sites? I am thinking I should because the quality of the mirror sites are very low and I don't want it to seem like a link scheme. I only want these links there as a means to let the user know that the service is provided as part of the main site; I have no intention to try and falsely inflate backlinks.
If that question is too broad or website specific then I ask the following: Will using rel="nofollow" negate any negative effects from low quality links to a website.
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What you are trying to do is no problem at all and won't result in any issues with Google.
I will use the PHP website as an example. It is a major website ranking extremely highly. It has a very large number of mirror sites, more for capacity planning and lower latency than for dealing with an inaccessible main site. On each mirrored site there is a list of every single other mirror as well as the main canonical site. The way this is dealt with is not by restricting crawling, rather it is by making sure that every page has a rel="canonical" tag added to the head pointing to the relevant page on the main canonical site.
IE:
au1.php.net/mirrors.php
au2.php.net/mirrors.php
php.net/mirrors.php
all have the same line in the header...
<link rel="canonical" href="php.net/mirrors.php" />
By doing this PHP avoids duplication issues, makes sure that Google is aware that the main php.net site is the canonical source of the page, but still lets all of the other pages be indexed which would allow someone to access a local mirror using a Google search rather than needing to type in the address manually.
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