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Hi guys,

Mobile SEO question.

So some time in the past, my client accidentally got a whole bunch of m.example.co.nz URLs indexed due to a link on another website and the awesome relative URL links on my client website.

However, now they're building a mobile website and they want all those m.example.co.nz URLs.

My question is, if we build a new mobile website and use those mobile website URLs including those already indexed by Google, will Google automatically know after crawling those URLs that they are now for mobile users? Will it change the pages to it's mobile index? Or will it be a case of duplicate content?

Thanks

Kim

Thanks for your reply Dr. Meyers. I think you're probably right.

Yes I'm recommending they define a canonical set of pages that are the most popular searches, categories and locations which can be reached via internal links and we'll get all those duplicates re-directed back to that canonical set.

But for pages that fall outside those categories and locations, I'll recommend a meta-no-index tag.

Sure, check below and some of the duplication I mean:

Capitalization Duplication

http://yellow.co.nz/yellow+pages/Car+dealer/Auckland+Region

http://yellow.co.nz/yellow+pages/Car+Dealer/Auckland+Region

With a few URL parameters

http://yellow.co.nz/yellow+pages/Car+Dealer/Auckland+Region?encodedRefinement=refineterms..%3D..%5E%22Car+%26+Truck+Dealers+-+Used.%3A.Makes.%3D.Toyota%22%24..%26..Makes+%28Toyota%29&display=&stageName=Composite+search&suppressMobileListings=false

And with location duplication

http://yellow.co.nz/yellow+pages/Car+Dealer/Auckland

Let me know if you need any more info!

Cheers

Kim

Hey guys,

I've got a question for you all that I've been pondering for a few days now. I'm currently doing an SEO Technical Audit for a large scale directory.

One major issue that they are having is that their internal search system (Directory Search) will create a new URL everytime a search query is entered by the user. This creates huge amounts of duplication on the website.

I'm wondering if it would be best to block search engines from crawling these URLs entirely with Robots.txt?

What do you guys think? Bearing in mind there are probably thousands of these pages already in the Google index?

Thanks

Kim