Comments on: Mobile Search, Blended Indexes, Content Ranking http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/ Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:46:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: miker http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/comment-page-1/#comment-239261 miker Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:51:01 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/#comment-239261 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 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 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/comment-page-1/#comment-239082 Dennis Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:06:49 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/#comment-239082 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. 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 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/comment-page-1/#comment-238878 miker Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:11:45 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/#comment-238878 We have!! The Googlebot is denied /web, but still the content is showing up in there. We have!! The Googlebot is denied /web, but still the content is showing up in there.

]]> By: aufmobi http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/comment-page-1/#comment-238866 aufmobi Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:41:02 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/02/13/mobile-search-blended-indexes-content-ranking/#comment-238866 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. 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.

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