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    • pulseseo
      pulseseo last edited by

      We have a larger site with 100k+ pages, we need to create a mobile site which gets indexed in the mobile engines but I am afraid that google bot will consider these pages duplicates of the normal site pages.

      I know I can block it on the robots.txt but I still need it to be indexed for mobile search engines and I think google has a mobile crawler as well.

      Feel free to give me any other tips that I should follow while trying to optimize the mobile version.

      Any help would be appreciated 🙂

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      • Banar
        Banar last edited by

        Hi Manoj,

        You shouldn't have a problem if you do it right. Google has separate bots,  GoogleBot and GoogleBot Mobile. I can explain how it works but Matt already did it much better. Link to video is attached for you.

        watch?v=mY9h3G8Lv4k

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