If you're planning on shutting down your website tomorrow to protest SOPA (it is horrible legislation that will hurt business, by the way), Google UK's Pierre Far has some advice on how to do it without hurting your SEO with Google
1. The most important point: Webmasters should return a 503 HTTP header for all the URLs participating in the blackout(parts of a site or the whole site). This helps in two ways:
a. It tells us it's not the "real" content on the site and won't be indexed.
b. Because of (a), even if we see the same content (e.g. the “site offline” message) on all the URLs, it won't cause duplicate content issues.
More on SOPA:
Tim O'Reilly Explains Where The Federal Gov't Has Gone Wrong On SOPA/PIPA: Solving The Wrong Problem
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