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Your Mobile Site Does Not Have To Be Duplicate Content

Posted on January 18, 2011 by weiss20

Matt Cutts gives clear instructions on how to deal with duplicate content on a mobile site His prime suggestion is to create a subdomain like m.mysite.com and adjust robots.txt to allow only the googlebot-mobile to access the files. You can block the mobile bot on your main site. Create a Mobile Sitemap and submit it to Google to inform us to the site’s existence.

More information can be found on Google Webmaster Blog

Filed under: Duplicate Content, Mobile SEO

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