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. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Vary: User-Agent Content-Length: 5710 (.rest of HTTP response headers.
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The User-agent: * specifies that all crawlers are welcome. It can be installed, up and running in a matter of minutes. However, out of the box, WordPress is not as SEO friendly as you'd think. This guide will show you the necessary steps to...
There are so many user-agents that asking a CDN to store a special version of a page for each user-agent might be too much of a burden. As it turns out, implementing the Vary User-Agent HTTP header effectively turns off the caching of pages.
User-agent: *Disallow: / The worst time to conduct a link audit is when you need to. Don’t wait for a Penguin update to wipe out your rankings in the SERPs or an “unnatural links” warning to hit your inbox.
User-agent: * You know it’s going to be a bad (day, week, month …), when Google sends you one of these: Receiving an email like this is scary. At best, your business won’t receive any organic search traffic from Google for weeks.
Let's return to our example of the New York real estate agent. Consider the homepage of a real estate site for an agent in New York. If we weren't a real estate agent in New York and were instead an established brand and if we didn't have to worry...
This includes the call center, and branch/agent locations. User’s eyes are drawn to maps and local listings. 2012 was an awkward year for financial services. There was continuation of low interest rates, an election, and the impending fiscal cliff...
Either way, the data challenge mobile search engines ultimately face is that user led direct intention signals (i.e.the query string) are diminishing whilst the devices themselves hold the technological capability to send many many more contextual...
This – combined with knowing what your location is, your previous search history, your social graph from Google+, and your device type from your user agent – allows the search engines to vary the results to the intent of the search at that...
By understanding consumer intent and tying those intentions to specific content and KPIs, we are able to attract additional searches, create relationships with new prospects, and grow the value of search beyond a “bottom of the funnel” sales...
By comparing the two numbers and filtering out any user-agent that declares itself a bot (spider or crawler) we were able to determine the total percentage of visits without JavaScript enabled. These were accounts Facebook identified as duplicate...
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.
User-agent:* Disallow: /cgi-bin/Disallow: /tmp/Disallow: /junk/ When it comes to SEO, most people understand that a website must have content, "search engine friendly" site architecture/HTML, and meta data (title tags and meta descriptions).
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...
When you see an incoming user agent that is mobile device specific, send them to the mobile version of your site. Make sure that your user agent detection includes Googlebot-Mobile. The above graphic is only for detecting Googlebot-Mobile, and your...
I could see this working especially well for an event planner, photographer, bakery, travel agent, art dealer, or even a jewelry designer. In the gifts section of Pinterest users are able to see your products and if you do your job right you just...
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:
Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index. There is no such thing as white hat cloaking" and "the page the user sees is same page the googlebot sees" show...
You can utilize user agent detection as mentioned above and leverage the same desktop page, which potentially has strong equity -- just with a mobile twist. There are currently estimated to be 327.6 million active wireless customer connections in...
