Wrapping it up, Meunier emphasized that you not block Googlebot from mobile sites. The need to design and deploy a next-generation site architecture that maximizes your chances of findability, no matter where and how searchers look for you, is one...
Doing this will tell crawlers that the HTML being served on that URL may vary depending on user agent, such a googlebot or googlebot-mobile. Above the fold issues, content strategy, internal links, and mobile specifics can trip you up.
Mobile SEO: Managing Googlebot & Your Mobile Sites For years now we have heard the phrase “the year of mobile. There are a lot of different types of pre-formatted mobile search results that can be displayed, so we need to make sure that the result...
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Needless to say, you don’t want Googlebot to hit the wrong header response code, and possibly across thousands of pages. Note, this will not check to see if the site is being formatted for mobile or tablet visitors.
Redirecting mobile users to different URLs comes with additional caveats and Google speaks directly to them when they say, “.be sure to treat Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile just like any other user-agent and redirect them appropriately.
In December, Google introduced the smartphone crawler (User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot...
New Googlebot improves UX by displaying the destination URL in the SERPs, decreases latency by avoiding mobile redirects. Driving Mobile Traffic: SEO s a recap of the information-packed session. Why Mobile Matters
In December 2011 Google announced that it now has a smartphone Googlebot-Mobile. Historically, Googlebot-Mobile has concerned itself only with mobile sites designed for feature phones, so this is a pretty significant development.
Last week Google announced that Googlebot-Mobile now crawls with a smartphone user-agent in addition to the previous feature phone users-agents. Here are the main user-agent strings that Googlebot-Mobile now uses:
There is no such thing as white hat cloaking" and "the page the user sees is same page the googlebot sees" show Google really needs a better understanding of how the web is developing. We can redirect for browser languages, we can create mobile...
Having one distinct mobile URL keeps your mobile optimization from interfering with your classic optimization (keeping the same experience on the small screen), and allows the GoogleBot Mobile to visit and index the mobile version for mobile...
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Also, Googlebot is in pieces, no doubt symbolic of a broken link. Google's New Fail Page Features Broken Googlebot by Danny Goodwin Press Start: launching Google Game Developer Central - Google Mobile Ads Blog
Also, Googlebot is in pieces, no doubt symbolic of a broken link. Also interesting that if you type in google.com/android, you'd think Google would redirect users to http://www.google.com/mobile/android/, or offer some sort of guidance to help...
New to this edition is a glossary to define terms throughout the guide (featuring a little cartoon Googlebot); more example images to help you understand the content; tips on optimizing your site for mobile devices; and clearer wording for better...
Google Webmaster Tools now offers Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and the ability for page owners to claim their Sidewiki entry. Catching up on a week of new stuff from the GOOG. Google and DISH Network may be teaming up for a TV search.
Could having this on the bottom of every page cause googlebot to time out and not crawl more of . Today, I'm on the hunt for interesting mobile Plans to Use Technology for Books and Archives Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 17, 2009 If you've ever...
Could having this on the bottom of every page cause googlebot to time out and not crawl more of . Mobile Search 101, Part 1 SEW EXPERTS: SEM 101 With more mobile applications coming into the market, users are finding more uses for these tools.
Googlebot and geolocation scripts Jun 9, 2009 Hi guys, I need some help. My question is how does this effect Googlebot.if somebody . By far, the mobile browser is . Audience for Local Content Accessed by Mobile Devices Grows 51% in a Year Posted...
