Directing traffic to subdomain
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Hi everyone,
For this question, please note that we will be directing traffic using a load balancer (an Amazon ELB, to be specific) rather than using a 301 redirect.
The question: Will the SEO ranking of links to pages be negatively impacted by directing traffic to servers with a different hostname (or subdomain) within mycompany.com? For example, we would like to have www.mycompany.com load balanced between host1.mycompany.com and host2.mycompany.com.
Many thanks for your input!
Jay
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Matt Cutts (Head of web spam team for Google) himself said in a video I have seen that redirecting to sub domains within your own domain will not negatively impact your ranking. Google knows its you.
If someone can reply with the link for him that would rock. I am too tired to search and going to bed.
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