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Not sure if this helps, but Duane Forrester from Bing stated at a conference I attended recently that it is better to use one URL for your desktop and Mobile site.

Here is an article suggesting the same: http://www.seroundtable.com/bing-mobile-seo-14861.html

One thing he did say was that if I come to your site via my desktop and do a search, I would like to obtain the same results if I searched your site on my phone.

The article does state that in some cases you would want to have different mobile pages from your desktop version.

Also, how have you applied a 301 redirect for mobile pages only?

But don't forget to remove that Disallow out of Robots.txt when you go live - if you want those pages to be indexed (and also the Meta-robots noindex nofollow).

Otherwise you might be pulling your hair out trying to figure out why none of your pages are getting indexed in the SERPs.

Thanks Kane!

Meta-robots it is!

I will apply it and see how I go with it.

Cheers

Hi All,

SEOMOZ is telling me I have a lot of duplicate content on my site.  The pages are not duplicate, but very similar, because the site is a directory website with a page for cities in multiple states in the US.

I do not want these pages being indexed and was wanting to know the best way to go about this.

I was thinking I could do a rel ="nofollow" on all the links to those pages, but not sure if that is the correct way to do this.

Since the folders are deep within the site and not under one main folder, it would mean I would have to do a disallow for many folders if I did this through Robots.txt.

The other thing I am thinking of is doing a meta noindex, follow, but I would have to get my programmer to add a meta tag just for this section of the site.

Any thoughts on the best way to achieve this so I can eliminate these dup pages from my SEO report and from the search engine index?

Thanks!

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes the duplicate content report is quite large, but I am not certain why the number of pages crawled fluctuated by over 4000.

the Duplicate content number went down by over 2000 last week, and then went straight back up again.  So I am not sure if the crawler missed something, or if there was some other issue going on.

Cheers

i wanted to figure out how our friend Roger Bot works.

On the first crawl of one of my large sites, the number of pages crawled stopped at 10000 (due to the restriction on the pro account).  However after a few weeks, the number of pages crawled went down to about 5500.  This number seemed to be a more accurate count of the pages on our site.

Today, it seems that Roger Bot has completed another crawl and the number is up to 10000 again.

I know there has been no downtime on our site, and the items that we fixed on our site did not reduce or increase the number of pages we had.

Just making sure there are no known issues with Roger Bot before I look deeper into our site to see if there is an issue.

Thanks!

You guys are great!

Robert - Thanks for the good guesses, it put me on the right track.

Nick - Every time I email Seomoz for any questions, I get an excellent concise response from the team, and its mostly been you answering all my questions.  So thank you for that.

The answer you gave makes a lot of sense now.  I was just worried my client would think they are doing so great for their root domain, but very poorly for their subdomain against their competition.  Now at least I can explain to them what is going on.

Will check out OSE.

Cheers

Hi All,

I have been looking in the forums but could not quite find an appropriate answer to my question.

I have a site that has no subdomains, in my htaccess non www redirects to www.

So I would think that the subdomain metrics in seomoz would be the exact same for root and subdomain.

However, it appears that I get almost all the Ticks for my site over my competition on the root domain, but do poorly in the sub domain area compared to competition.  Also, it shows that I only have 2 links for everything in the sub domain section.

Any I reading something wrong, or is this correct?

Thanks in advance