CDN Servers

[Talooma]

Will using CDN servers, where your website is synced (cached?) across multiple servers, have an effect on the SEO of your domain?

[Marcus_Miller]

My pleasure!

[Talooma]

Thanks for your reply. That makes a lot of sense. Had various people telling me conflicting things.

[Marcus_Miller]

A traditional CDN would just provide edge servers for the images and as such, your actual site is not on the CDN so it will not have any negative impact. In fact, if your content returns nice and quickly, it could even have a positive effect.

SEOMoz, Unbounce and even Shopify all use a CDN and I have never seen any negative implications from this with their rankings.

I guess one time this could be problematic is if people link to lots of your assets (infographics etc) but some smart linking strategies where you provide a page for them to link to rather than a direct link to the asset is a better strategy all around so something like:

So, we are asking people to link to a page on the site and wrapping up any images from the CDN on their own page so that the inbounds point to the page rather than the asset on the CDN. (which is a better strategy all around).

Apart from that, I can't see any reason why a CDN would be anything but a good thing.

Hope that helps
Marcus