This is an identical or near identical web site (or page) of another site, purposely done to target optimization of keywords or keyphrases. It is a violation of the Terms of Service of search engines.
Many ftp sites are very popular. Mirror sites contain exactly the same contents as the popular site and help distribute the load. (8/97)
(v.) To maintain identical copies of data on different storage areas. (n.) One of the copies that is maintained.
A mirror site is a site where files are duplicated or "mirrored" on a server at a different geographic location to facilitate access by reducing the distance between users and the visited server. The intention is to minimise long distance communications traffic and response time.
An exact copy—typically refers to sites that have two names, but identical material.
Some FTP sites are so heavily used that in order to relieve the load, their entire contents are copied to and made available by other sites. These are then known as 'mirror sites'
A metadevice made of one or more other metadevices called submirrors. It replicates data by maintaining multiple copies.
A Network-Volume which maintains at least one complete, dynamic copy of the data stored within its logical extents.
A Web site that is a replica of an already existing site, used to reduce network traffic (hits on a server) or improve the availability of the original site.
A copy of a volume and its data. There can be several mirrors per volume. The terms mirror and plex are used synonymously.
A duplicate copy of a volume and the data therein (in the form of an ordered collection of subdisks). Each mirror consists of one plex of the volume with which the mirror is associated.
a complete copy of an online resource
a complete duplication of their site on another server
a machine that periodically downloads the contents of an FTP archive, keeping an exact or nearly exact copy of it available on a different machine
an archive whose contents are copied from another archive
an authorized copy of a Web site placed at some geographic distance from the target site to cut down on Internet backbone traffic
an exact copy of a site placed on a separate server from the original so that a) all of the bandwidth doesen't hit one server, and b) people in different areas of the world can have a copy on a server nearer to them
a secondary copy of a website or files
a server that holds a copy of all content, to ensure that content is always accessible, even if one or more servers should fail)
a server that provides a copy of one or more collections of files
a sign of duplication (representing James' new false personality, created to drive him away from his acts in the past), but it also can show signs of doubt and self-analysis
a site containing copies of the files represented here
a site that has a copy of Audacity to download
a website or set of files on a computer server that has been copied to another server so that the files are available in more that one place
A site that provides copies of some or all of the resources available at another site to improve their availability or to reduce network traffic.
A Mirror is a duplicate. In terms of websites, it is a duplicate website made from an original. In terms of hardware, drive volumes can be mirrored so that when one is busy satisfying a request, another mirrored can step to take some of the load.
an FTP site that has been set up to duplicate exactly the contents of another site. By mirroring, traffic can be divided between the mirror sites and the original, making downloads faster for everyone.
To maintain an exact copy of something. Probably the most common use of mirrors on the Internet refers to organisations that maintain exact copies of web sites in a number of different places. Mirrors are normally used to provide access to something on the Internet via a computer that is actually physically closer to you. The closer the computer, the faster (in theory) the information you asked for will arrive.
Some FTP servers are so useful that they are nearly always overloaded with traffic. To get around this, they clone their contents to other designated sites, called mirrors.
An alternative site containing data identical to the original.
a nearly identical website used to target different keywords/keyphrases. Using mirrors violates Terms of Service and could result in a ban. Natural Links – links obtained as a result of quality content that other websites find useful or link-worthy. Natural links are valued highly among major search engines like Google and Yahoo!. Outbound Links – links pointing to from your website to the other. PageRank(PR) – a system developed by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin that displays a numeric value for a page representing its importance on the Web. PageRank is based primarily on inbound links and their importance. The higher importance and link count, the higher is the PageRank. PR(A) – PageRank of page A d – value between 0 and 1 referred to as damping factor. PR(Tn) – PageRank of page Tn which links to A. C(Tn) – number of outbound links on page Tn Reciprocal Links – link exchange between two sites. After the latest Google update, there have been rumors that Google penalizes sites participating in such programs.
Mirroring is the creation of an identical or near identical website for targetting different keywords. Mirroring can get you banned from most search engines..
A copy of a site with some content differences to target particular keywords. Not a recommended strategy as it can trigger a penalty or ban.
To provide an exact copy of something, such as to mirror a hard drive or a website. A common reason is for redundancy, thereby allowing more reliable access.
In geographic mirroring, an independent disk pool that is being geographically mirrored so that it is a replica of the production copy of the independent disk pool. If a switchover or failover causes the system that owns the mirror copy to become the current primary node, the mirror copy becomes the production copy of the independent disk pool. The mirror copy has current data only when geographic mirroring is active.
A duplicate of an internet site. i.e. A site that has a lot of access may have mirrors available to help share the load.
Two meanings, in computing... (1) A web site that's an exact copy of another. This enables quicker access from the nearest part of the world. (2) On any computer: a second hard disk that's an exact copy of the first. If the first hard disk fails, data can be read from the second one without a break. Often used by banks and other large businesses that need to have their data accessible without a break.
An FTP server that provides copies of the same files as another server. Some FTP servers are so popular that other servers have been set up to mirror them and spread the FTP load to more than one site.
A copy of a web page, generally used to describe 'mirror' download sites' which contain copies of the same files allowing more widespread access.
The most common use of the term on the Internet refers to "mirror sites" which are web sites, or FTP sites that are duplicates at a different location to the original. It is usually better to download files from the closest mirror site.
A replica site set up to share traffic.
Any machine which hosts an exact copy of information (files, text, etc.) stored on a completely different host. For example, the "mirror" of a website's image gallery would contain all of the images that the main site would, with the exact same filenames, etc. Mirrors of websites are usually used for high traffic website in order to help to alleviate some of the traffic from one host to another.
A mirror replicates data by maintaining multiple copies. Mirrors are logical storage devices that copy their data to other logical storage devices called submirrors.
Generally speaking, "to mirror" is to maintain an exact copy of something such as a web site.
More or less an exact copy of another WWW or FTP site. Mirror sites are created when the traffic on the original site is too heavy. They are usually on servers which are located in different geographic areas.
A mirror is a nearly identical duplicate website (or page). You can find more information on this under "duplicate sites" on our Black-Hat Search Engine Positioning Tactics page.
A mirror site is a direct copy of another website for one of many purposes. A mirror site is a very common occurrence when downloading something off the internet. A perfect example of this is the infamous Source Forge.net site. The basis of the Sourceforge concept is, primarily, open source, but secondarily, the use of many different locations to achieve one goal: to get the product to the user, you. Many innovative and amazing computer projects host their sites and files on Source Forge, which provides mirrors in several states and countries; from Dublin, Ireland to Tokyo, Japan. See also: FTP, SFTP
a replica website or server that is set-up to share traffic loads.
Short for "mirror sites" and refers to Web or FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material originating at another location. Mirrors are usually created in order to provide more widespread access to the resource.
A collection of one to three submirrors which, when modified, causes the modification to be applied to each of its submirrors. A technique of duplicating data on multiple logical disk partitions to reduce the risk of data loss in the event of a hardware failure. See also Disk Suite.
An exact copy of a web site that is stored on a different server. Using multiple locations for warez sites allows the site to be accessed using a different address if the main site is deleted.
a mirror site is a copy of a primary website. The mirror site may exist to provide continuity and reliability of access, or to spread loading caused by heavy use of the primary site. Normally a mirror site is updated by copying from the primary site continuously or at regular intervals, a process known as mirroring.
A replica Website set up to share the traffic on a busy site.
Is the process of making two identical copies of a tape backup during one backup session. This requires two tape drives.
Generally speaking, “to mirror” is to maintain an exact copy of something. Probably the most common use of the term on the Internet refers to “mirror sites” which are web sites, or FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material originated at another location, usually in order to provide more widespread access to the resource or resilience for a web server that requires maximum uptime. If one server fails the second will still be able to service client requests. See Also: FTP , Web To top
Replica FTP or web site set up to share traffic.
Two web pages/sites which are identical to each other are said to be mirrors. This is usually the case when one site is available under two (or more) URLs. e.g. dmoz.org, newhoo.com, and gnuhoo.com are mirrors. See also: Guidelines: Identical Mirrors
A duplicate of an FTP site. mirrors help reduce longhaul Internet traffic by letting people download files from hosts that are closer to them. Usually, mirror sites are updated every night, so that they have the same contents as the main site.
A mirror of your site is a replica your ISP puts on a second server located in a different place. Mirroring gives you a backup of your site, distributes traffic, and improves connection speeds.
To maintain an exact copy. Some websites offer an alternative 'mirror' site, that is used if the original fails. Also refers to 'local' and 'remote' versions of the same website.
To maintain an exact copy of something. (1) With reference to the Internet, 'mirror sites' are web sites or FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material originated at another location, to provide more widespread access to the resource (more network bandwidth). (2) With reference to computers, 'mirroring' is an arrangement where information is written to more than one hard disk simultaneously, so that if one disk fails, the computer keeps on working without losing any data.
An exact replica of a main site provided to users to improve accessibility.
Copy and display the material from one Web site on another.
A mirror is an FTP server that provides copies of the same files as another server. A mirror site provides an alternate way to access the same files when an FTP site is so popular that the volume of users accessing it keeps others from getting through.
In SEO terms, a mirror is a near identical duplicate website or web page. In Search Engine Marketing, mirrors are commonly used in an effort to target different keywords or keyword phrases. However the use of mirrors is against the Search Engines Guidelines and could get your site banned from the Search Engines.
A server that provides copies of the same files as another server. Some servers are so popular that other servers have been set up to mirror them and to spread the load on to more than one site. Many international sites have mirrors set up in other countries to allow quicker access for their international users.
Sites A Mirror site of a Web site is an exact copy of the original site. They are commonly used for Web and FTP sites when the original site cannot cope with the load that is being put on it. An added benefit can be that one of the mirror sites is more accessible to you and therefore provides faster access.
A nearly identical or duplicate website or page. Using mirrors is a violation of the Terms Of Service of most search engines and could be grounds for banning.
To "mirror" something is to maintain an exact copy of it. The most common use of the term on the Internet refers to "mirror sites" which are FTP or web sites that maintain exact copies of material originally stored at another location. Another term is "pointing", where one domain points to another. This is often used if you have multiple domain names that you want to have referred to only one. Another common use of the term "mirror" refers to writing information to more than one hard disk simultaneously to prevent its loss or destruction. See Also: FTP, WWW
Mirror refers to identical or duplicate site. Making mirror sites reduce the effort of designing new site and lets give the scope to target different keywords.
Generally speaking, "to mirror" is to maintain an exact copy of something. The most common use of the term on the Internet refers to "mirror sites" which are Web FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material originated at another location, usually in order to provide more widespread access to the resource. Another common use of the term "mirror" refers to an arrangement where information is written to more than one hard disk simultaneously, so that if one disk fails, the computer keeps on working without losing data.
To mirror a web site means to maintain an exact copy of the site somewhere. Often used to help keep traffic for getting too heavy on a single site, especially for file downloads
Generally speaking, "to mirror" is to maintain an exact copy of something. Probably the most common use of the term on the Internet refers to "mirror sites" which are web sites, or FTP sites that maintain copies of material originated at another location, usually in order to provide more widespread access to the resource. For example, one site might create a library of software, and 5 other sites might maintain mirrors of that library.
A computer system that contains a duplicate copy of information stored in another system.
The most common use of this term on the Internet refers to “mirror sites” which are web sites, or FTP sites that contain exact copies of material stored at another location. They are used to provide more widespread access to the resource for Internet users.
server that provides a copy of a Web site or resource available on another server, for alternative access.
A mirror in computing is a direct copy of a data set. On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site. Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large downloads.