Mobile Pages Are Showing Up As Duplicates In SERPS

davidroth · Post by **davidroth** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:02 am

Has anyone experienced this problem? I've noticed that the dynamically generated mobile pages are showing up in Google. Actually, I have about 3 pages that dropped from the SERPS alltogether. At first I just thought it was some over optimization penalty because I couldn't get it to rank even for my, somewhat unique, title tag. Then I just grabbed text off the page and put it in quotes. Eventually, I started noticing more and more mobile versions of the page showing up!

This seems like maybe it's a flaw with the way that Shopsite handles these mobile pages. Would a better solution be to have the m.domain.com/actualpage.html instead of generating all these versions of the same page?

And what's the optimal fix? Just putting a noindex on all those pages? That doesn't seem to be optimal because I know Google has a separate mobile crawler and I would assume is more likely to serve up content that is optimized for mobile.

Until I figure out a fix, I just turned off mobile in Shopsite. Seems like too big of a risk to have, potentially, tons of duplicates out there on the internet that Google appears able to crawl.

ShopSite Lauren · Post by **ShopSite Lauren** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:45 pm

I just wanted to post an answer to the issue above.

Dave suggested to add canonical links in the head section of the mobile pages to point search engines to the regular version of the page, rather than the mobile version.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

<link rel="canonical" href="[-- OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_URL --]/[-- PAGE.FileName --]">

<link rel="canonical" href="[-- PRODUCT.MoreInfoURL --]">

djhht · Post by **djhht** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:58 am

I don't understand where to add this ... I understand the head portion, but how do I access the "mobile pages"?

ShopSite Lauren · Post by **ShopSite Lauren** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:25 am

The mobile pages are created dynamically from a template. You can copy the ShopSite default mobile template for pages by going to Merchandising > Custom Templates > Page/Product Templates > Copy ShopSite Template, and make a copy of the page (and product) template starting with mb_. After you have made any changes to the head section that you want, you will want to tell ShopSite to use your modified templates rather than the default templates. This can be done by going to Preferences > Mobile.

djhht · Post by **djhht** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:11 pm

Ok. Now I understand where to put those two lines, but when I put it in the <head> on the Product page I get this error when viewing the Product

Template Error: Page tag illegal for this type of template">

ShopSite Lauren · Post by **ShopSite Lauren** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:40 pm

The first line goes only in the page templates, and the second line goes only in the product templates.

djhht · Post by **djhht** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:48 pm

OK, great. Sorry I am so simple and could not see that. Thanks!!

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