If your a developer or webmaster you’ll know that integrating a CDN to serve your static files and heavy loading objects is the easiest and most cost effective way to minimise impact on your web server and optimise the performance of your website.

However, you can also cause yourself huge headaches in terms of SEO if you don’t do things correctly. Of course the benefits of using a CDN far outweigh any possible negatives or downsides. For example, we recently were able to shave nearly a second of the load time of Birdsong.fm which you can read about here.

When you create a CDN you are effectively creating a copy of your website at another location, which Google and other search engines can read as duplicate content. And duplicated content = BAD!

According to Google themselves, they don’t generally treat sites hosted on CDNs as any different. However there are a few things that all devs and webmasters need to be aware of and best practices that can be implemented that Jamie, our Community Manager has outlined for you on the Learn section of our site.