I have created mobile-optimized version of my web. Full version runs at www.domain.com and the mobile version runs at m.domain.com. Now I DO want to use this domain scheme for certain reasons.
Now when I try to search Google, sometimes I get results from both domains - which I don't think is good experience for the users - coming with desktop browser to a simple mobile-version of the web. Also I want to avoid duplicate-content problem.
What would be the best practice to "tell" Google that www.domain.com is full version website and m.domain.com is the website with the same content but with very simple design optimised for mobile users ?
Make m. URLs redirect (or <link rel="canonical">) to desktop URLs for spider UAs.
Make desktop URLs redirect to m. URLs for mobile UAs.
You should really use
<link rel="alternate" media="handheld" href="http://mobileversion..."/>
You should add a rel alternate on your desktop that points to the mobile URL and a rel conical on the mobile site that points to the desktop. For more clarity on this watch the video by Google's Matt Cutts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVQHbfpqXHM
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I want to link my mobile variant website version to the desktop version i.e "view website in desktop". You click this button and it will take you to the desktop version only. Program I use is Xara Web Designer. CPanel is where the files are hosted.
They have advised I need to create two copies of my website to do this.
I can duplicate my website but how would I go about uploading the two copies to CPanel? Also I would need to remove the robots.txt file from one of them because I do not want google crawling the duplicate site (SEO Issues).
Would I need two domains? I want to keep just one.
Thanks in advance please let me know if you need clarification on anything.
There are better solutions with regards to SEO such as making your website 'mobile responsive'. But to answer your specific question, you are probably best to create a mobile website and set it up on a 'm.' subdomain (so you only need your 1 domain name). You can do this from cPanel under 'Subdomains'.
As for no-indexing the mobile website with robots.txt, the correct method is to use the 'canonical' tag. This is a good guide from Google on the subject: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/overview/select-config?hl=en
I'm building a website for a company, I build this website offline so google won't index it, with the reason that google don't see the codes yet and thinks at the official launch that we copied the text/codes from an other website.
Sadly I encounterd a problem. I need to implant the facebook social plugin, sadly does this plugin only work when the site is online. But as I said putting it online can be dangerous for future Google SEO.
Is there an other option where I can see the facebook plugin but it is not online yet or is it okay for me to just place it online already on (for example) www.example.com and later put the released product on (for example) www.released.com.
Any toughts on this problem?
Why don't you place the website online in a folder that is blocked for Googlebot via robots.txt?
That way you can test all the online elements work and not have to worry about users and search engines finding it and listing it.
An alternative could be to use the .htaccess file to limit access only to your IP address - that way, you'd be the only one to see the site live.
My cousin has given me her old website to "redo" which is on a Google Sites template. I have separately created a static website with Ruby on Rails setup and Bootstrap but am now scratching my head on how to transition her old Google Site to this new layout (I want to keep the original domain name).
Also, the good thing about Google Sites is that when I search for her business, it pops up on the right side of the page and sometimes pops up at the top for google local search, which is obviously great for marketing/SEO.
I did read something that Google doesn't support other platforms (I think) which is why I'm wondering if I can redirect and still retain the SEO benefits. Any resources or suggestions would be great, thanks!
Setup your new site with new ROR template.
Register and verify your new domain and old one on Google Webmaster
Create a custom 404 page for old domain which suggests visiting new domain.
Redirect your old urls to new one by a 1:1 redirection with 301, "Moved Permanently", like www.oldone.com/games to www.newone.com/games
Submit your sitemap of old one to Google and BIng, they will see 301 and rewrite their crawl cache.
Fill out change of address in Google webmaster and add new site's sitemap.
Above method is the best SEO friendly site moving method.
ps: Not exactly ROR question .
Edit: I don't really know about google pages but one of doing this would be, deploy ROR site somewhere and use iframe in google page to project it to google page.
In your google page,
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use options like height="100%" to cover the entire page.
from 21 April google launch Mobile Freindly website algorithm. I used the meta name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" Tag but its not working . what i should do now for this.
The release you are referring to by Google on the 21st of April is a push to get site owners to make mobile friendly versions of their websites. Simply by placing viewport markup into your website does not make it mobile friendly, the design needs to respond to the resolution of the device you are viewing the website in. Recommend looking more into "Responsive Website Design". If your site is too big to do a redesign before the 21st, consider making an m.yourdomain.com mobile version of your site while you work on a redesign to responsive.
To check if your website will pass the mobile friendly test by using Google Webmaster Tools Mobile Friendly checker tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
Hope this helps.
My question is "How to integrate apache and google site via proxy"?
I found this tutorial but it didn't work as I expected. It redirect to google site instead of keep my domain in address bar and change content only.
In my case, I want whenever people access to http://mydomain.com, they will see the content from https://sites.google.com/site/mydomain/
Thanks!
I think it's not possible because you can't acces on the dataBase on your Google Sites. The url of your Google can't change.