IPv6 SEO implecations?

Tue Mar 29 16:54:27 UTC 2011

On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Franck Martin wrote:

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> On 3/29/11 10:18 , "Wil Schultz" <wschultz at bsdboy.com> wrote:
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>> I'm attempting to find out information on the SEO implications of testing
>> ipv6 out.
>> 
>> 
>> 3) ??? Any others that I haven't thought of ???
>> 
>> So basically I'd love to set up some sites for ipv6.domain.com via 6to4
>> as a phase one, and at some point in the near future implement ipv6
>> natively inside the datacenter, but I'm somewhat concerned about damaging
>> SEO reputation in the process.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
> 
> Do we know which spiders run on IPv6?
> 
> After all an IPv6 only site may not be indexed at all...
> 

I haven't published any hostnames, so I don't have the entire picture... with that being said, here's what I have seen. The only big search engine I've seen at this point is google, here are the user agents I've seen to date:

Googlebot-Image/1.0
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
DoCoMo/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
SAMSUNG-SGH-E250/1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser/6.2.3.3.c.1.101 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

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Just FYI, Google bots all have an ipv6 suffix of 6006:1300:b075 (Google Bots, how 1337 of them!)

Here are the addresses seen from google:

2001:4860:4801:1302:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1303:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1401:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1402:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1404:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1405:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1407:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1408:0:6006:1300:b075

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And here's a breakdown of which user agents are seen on which ip, as you can see the user-agent doesn't exactly match IP range. 

Googlebot-Image/1.0
2001:4860:4801:1404:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1405:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1408:0:6006:1300:b075

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html); 
2001:4860:4801:1302:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1303:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1401:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1402:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1404:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1405:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1407:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1408:0:6006:1300:b075

DoCoMo/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2001:4860:4801:1404:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1405:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1407:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1408:0:6006:1300:b075

SAMSUNG-SGH-E250/1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser/6.2.3.3.c.1.101 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2001:4860:4801:1302:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1401:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1404:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1405:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1407:0:6006:1300:b075
2001:4860:4801:1408:0:6006:1300:b075

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Again, I don't have the entire picture because I've not published my hostnames. The above information is just what I've seen on my selective testing.

-wil