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Hey Guys,

How can you verify a website is not violating Google's guidelines for cloaking?

Cheers,

LW

Hey Mike,

Thanks for your feedback, it is really helpful.

We are serving up unique source code on the same URL per device, with the user agent being detected on the server-side.

Am I right in assuming that he Googlebot Mobile will only see one version of the pages and index accordingly?

Cheers,

LW

Thanks for your response, You raise a very valid point about the time taken for Google to index it. The new site has been live for a couple of weeks now, so I was hoping to see the new site to be starting to get indexed by Google by now!

In regards to rel="canonical",  Yes we have implemented on the mobile site referencing the desktop site.

Reason behind developing a new version rather than just updating the previous version was because we had new functionality to include and a fair few changes to design based on learning from the old site. That being said code from the first site was still being used so it wasn't a completely new build.

Hey Guys,

We have recently finished the latest version of our mobile site which means currently we have 2 mobile sites. Depending on what device and Os will depend on which site you will be presented with.
e.g.
iPhone 3 or 4 users on iOS4 will get version 1 of our mobile site
iPhone 5 users on iOS5 will get the new version (version 2) of our mobile site.

Our old mobile site is currently indexed in Google and performing pretty well.
Since the launch of the second mobile site we have not see any major changes to our visibility in Google and so was curious

My main concern here is duplicate content so I am curious can Google detect that we have 2 mobile site that we serve depending on device?  And if Google can detect this, why has our sites not been penalized!

Thanks,

LW

I know the first thing that comes to your mind is Duplicate content

Thanks Billy,

That was my thought exactly.

I wasn't sure if it was worth the effort at this stage to vigorously optimize the our new mobile website or to at least put in the basic optimization best practices to be prepared for the mobile optimization and search to really take off.

Thanks for your response.

As i mentioned the site I am working on already has an existing mobile website but it only has the basic SEO on it to assist with Search Engines (eg meta data).

I can definitely see the value in having a mobile website to be able to deliver a excellent experience for users on a mobile device (and tablets) and leveraging the wealth of analytic's that come from the mobile traffic.

Currently I feel like this site I am working on is ranking in Mobile search based on the good optimization of the desktop website & our desktop site being mobile friendly!

I am curious if you guys feel that optimizing your mobile website for mobile search is actually having an impact on your rankings in mobile search or if your mobile sites are ranking based on the desktop website?

Hi Guys,

I am about to start to redesigning a new mobile website and am curious if mobile SEO is actually having an affect or not.

The site I am doing the redesign for, already has a very well optimized desktop site and has an existing mobile website with no optimization.

The mobile website is ranking well in Mobile search so I am curious why I I would need to optimize the new mobile website properly, especially when the mobile website has a canonical tag for its desktop counter part?

Love to get everyone's thoughts on this & where they see mobile SEO going in the next 12 months.

Hi Guys,

I'm working on an ecommerce website with all the product pages using dynamic URL's (we also have a few static pages but there is no issue with them).

The products are updated on the site every couple of hours (because we sell out or the special offer expires) and as a result I keep seeing heaps of 404 errors in Google Webmaster tools and am trying to avoid this (if possible).

I have already created an XML sitemap for the static pages and am now looking at incorporating the dynamic product pages but am not sure what is the best approach.

The URL structure for the products are as follows:

http://www.xyz.com/products/product1-is-really-cool
http://www.xyz.com/products/product2-is-even-cooler
http://www.xyz.com/products/product3-is-the-coolest

Here are 2 approaches I was considering:

1. To just include the dynamic product URLS within the same sitemap as the static URLs using just the following http://www.xyz.com/products/ - This is so spiders have access to the folder the products are in and I don't have to create an automated sitemap for all product

OR

2. Create a separate automated sitemap that updates when ever a product is updated and include the change frequency to be hourly - This is so spiders always have as close to be up to date sitemap when they crawl the sitemap

I look forward to hearing your thoughts, opinions, suggestions and/or previous experiences with this.

Thanks heaps,

LW