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wiradikusuma on Jan 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Website outages and blackouts the right way

If HN has "sticky posts", this thing should be on top at least until 18th of Jan to avoid people from hurting their website's SEO too much for the solidarity action.

amirmc on Jan 16, 2012 | [–]

Until I saw this post, I hadn't even considered the possible SEO implications.

Tim-Boss on Jan 16, 2012 | | [–]

What I took away from the article is that done right, 503 error, SEO wont be damaged (long term at least) and everything will be back to normality again within a couple of days.

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