Comments on: Mobile Search, Blended Indexes, Content Ranking

By: miker

miker — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:51:01 +0000

Hey Dennis,
Thanks for the comment. I agree, definitely, when it comes to organizing and presenting your information design for users and not the indexes. However, when you’re building a content adapting proxy it requires certain behaviors in order to make sure you’re behaving properly as a citizen of the ecosystem on the whole. That’s the part I’m somewhat unsure about.
- Mike

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:06:49 +0000

I’ve agonized over the same issues. I ended up just having both web and mobile Google sitemaps and putting every page in the appropriate sitemap without worrying about duplicate content. I also use the handheld meta tag to point to mobile content from web content and to recursively point from mobile content to itself.

I’m pretty satisfied with the results, 80% of my mobile and my web traffic comes from Google and traffic has been growing steadily. Most of my pages are indexed too.

I think Google’s algorithms should recognize that duplicate content across a full-web site and it’s mobile counterpart is a good thing and not penalize it.

It sure would be nice if Google did a better job of documenting what they consider best practices for webmasters. I still think the best approach (and something I think Matt Cutts and other Googlers have said) is to ignore Google and design for users.

By: miker

miker — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:11:45 +0000

We have!! The Googlebot is denied /web, but still the content is showing up in there.

By: aufmobi

aufmobi — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:41:02 +0000

I’m really surprised to see all the mowser transcoded sites indexed in google.

You should really block your transcoded pages via robots.txt or put a noindex meta tag on it.

That’s a major duplicate content seo ding to anyone’s site that get’s caught in the google mowser index. I would be pretty pissed myself if my site was in there.