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Hi Billy, I read through your question and it appears it's been 6 months since this post. I wondered how things were going here? Did you effectively canonicalize your old pages to your new URLs with Anchor Links? We may be in the process of doing the same thing so just wanted to ask for an update on your outcome? Thanks

Hello Billy, As you're probably aware, load balancing services are for distributing traffic to more than one server in order to maintain high performance even when traffic levels spike. There is nothing wrong with this from an SEO perspective, as it all happens server-side before the user agent (e.g. Google) ever receives anything. It is a common practice amongst enterprise-level websites. However, you are right to be concerned about this implementation, as it is definitely not the intended use of the technology, and sounds like a workaround instead of an actual fix. It may be a good workaround if you only allow one version of the content to be indexed, and ensure proper use of cross-domain rel canonical tags. Or you could even simply block anyone, including Google, from accessing the non-canonical version (on your subdomain, I take it) by returning a 401 (unauthorized) or a 403 (forbidden) status code.

That makes perfect sense.  Thank you very much

Thank you yet again for the great advice.  We have two major universities here in town...  This is a wonderful idea!

Thank you, Mr. Young.  I believed this to be the case (that it wasn't the robots.txt file) but I could think of nothing else.  I have since been indexed.

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Thank you!  I suppose I was just really ranting.  I shouldnt let this stuff get to me