Google bot vs google mobile bot

[ReneReinholdt]

Hi everyone

I seriously hope you can come up with an idea to a solution for the problem below, cause I am kinda stuck

Situation: A client of mine has a webshop located on a hosted server. The shop is made in a closed CMS, meaning that I have very limited options for changing the code. Limited access to pagehead and can within the CMS only use JavaScript and HTML. The only place I have access to a server-side language is in the root where a Defualt.asp file redirects the visitor to a specific folder where the webshop is located.

The webshop have 2 "languages"/store views. One for normal browsers and google-bot and one for mobile browsers and google-mobile-bot.In the default.asp (asp classic).

I do a test for user agent and redirect the user to one domain or the mobile, sub-domain. All good right? unfortunately not. Now we arrive at the core of the problem.

Since the mobile shop was added on a later date, Google already had most of the pages from the shop in it's index. and apparently uses them as entrance pages to crawl the site with the mobile bot. Hence it never sees the default.asp (or outright ignores it).. and this causes as you might have guessed a huge pile of "Dub-content"

Normally you would just place some user-agent detection in the page head and either throw Google a 301 or a rel-canon. But since I only have access to JavaScript and html in the page head, this cannot be done.

I'm kinda running out of options quickly, so if anyone has an idea as to how the BEEP! I get Google to index the right domains for the right devices, please feel free to comment.

Any and all ideas are more then welcome.

[ReneReinholdt]

Just thought of a possible solution.

On the mobile site I guess I could do something like:

And on the normal site:

Does anyone have any experience in using meta data to command the google-mobile-bot?

[ReneReinholdt]

have decided that I'm just gonna try and see how it reacts, will report back when I have the conclusion.