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Very good to hear, thanks Shawn!  The goal is to use absolute canonicals, but for a period of time, we may have to use protocol relative.  The redirects in place should avoid any duplicate content issues, which seems to be the big landmine.

Hey Shawn, did using an unspecified HTTP/HTTPS protocol work for you in the canonical and/or HREF-LANG? We are going through a transition to HTTPS as well, and have multiple systems with some URLs that are hard coded. Hoping this solution would work as a short-term fix, while we update these pages to use a new, more dynamic system.

Yes, it is still possible. I see this features utilized by a number of brands in my vertical.

The redirect is automatic, based on location, and underneath the brand name and segment there's a link with the wording "Redirected from [main_page_name]".

The Like count is shared, and if a user mouses over the "redirected from..." link text they see a pop-up with the header of the primary page.

Definitely do-able, and I would say increasingly popular for major brands with a strong international presence.

Cheers!

Tripadvisor has a LOT of user generated content. Searching for a random hotel always seems to return a paginated list of 90+ pages. However once the first page is clicked and "#REVIEWS" is appended to the URL, the URL never changes with any subsequent clicks of the paginated links.

How do they ensure that all this review content gets crawled?

Thanks,

linklater

We serve up different desktop/mobile optimized html on the same URL, based on a visitor’s device type.

While Google continue to recommend the HTTP Vary: User-Agent header for mobile specific versions of the page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6qtaiZRHg), we’re also aware of issues raised around CDN caching; http://searchengineland.com/mobile-site-configuration-the-varies-header-for-enterprise-seo-163004  / http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2249533/How-Googles-Mobile-Best-Practices-Can-Slow-Your-Site-Down  /  http://orcaman.blogspot.com/2013/08/cdn-caching-problems-vary-user-agent.html

As this is primarily for Google's benefit, it's been proposed that we only returning the Vary: User-Agent header when a Google user agent is detected (Googlebot/MobileBot/AdBot).

So here's the thing: as the server header response is not “content” per se I think this could be an okay solution, though wanted to throw it out there to the esteemed Moz community and get some additional feedback.

You guys see any issues/problems with implementing this solution?

Cheers!

linklater

This is a question about the non-branded, topical sitelinks SERP - i.e. those sitelinks without additional descriptive text, that tend to be shown for queries that are information centered as opposed to brand-centric.

I'm been noticing an increase in these among some big brands in the travel vertical, and wanted to throw it out there to the esteemed Moz community.

Are these the preserve of big site SEO/brands, or is there anything we can/should be doing to increase our chances of getting these topical sitelinks to appear?

Cheers!

rkdVaDN

Hi Keri,

Still testing, though i see no reason why this shouldn't work so will close the QA ticket.

cheers!

Hi Joel,

Just wondering if you guys came up with a fix for this one? I have the same issue myself...

Thanks!

We maintain a crawler (and others)  blacklist to control server loads, so I'm just looking for the useragent string I can add to the white list. this one should do the trick;

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rogerBot/1.0; UrlCrawler; http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot)

Thanks Gerd, though looks like your robots.txt is a disallow rule, when I'm looking to let it through.

I'll give this one a try: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rogerBot/1.0; UrlCrawler; http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot)

Very good to hear, thanks Shawn!  The goal is to use absolute canonicals, but for a period of time, we may have to use protocol relative.  The redirects in place should avoid any duplicate content issues, which seems to be the big landmine.

Yes, it is still possible. I see this features utilized by a number of brands in my vertical.

The redirect is automatic, based on location, and underneath the brand name and segment there's a link with the wording "Redirected from [main_page_name]".

The Like count is shared, and if a user mouses over the "redirected from..." link text they see a pop-up with the header of the primary page.

Definitely do-able, and I would say increasingly popular for major brands with a strong international presence.

Cheers!