Exclude mobile pages from non mobile Google serps

[AndersDK]

Hi Everybody

I see that a lot of our pages on our mobile shop has started to turn up when i do site:domainname.com on google.

As they could potentially compete with the similar non mobile version of the same page, is there some way to exlude the mobile domain in non mobile google result without blocking the mobile version altogether.

We use an m.domain.com version for our mobile site.

[zigojacko]

There are number of ways of potentially handling this depending on what kind of website you have, what platform it uses and how you want to serve your business both on desktop and mobile devices.

Typically though, the correct procedure would be to implement user-agent detection on your website so that when Googlebot (desktop search) and Googlebot-Mobile (supports both feature phone and smartphone now) both visit your website, you can serve different pages/stylesheets based on their browsing capabilities.

For pages on your mobile sub domain, use canonical links pointing to the regular versions of your content which will instruct search engines that those versions are the originals but with user-agent detection in place, both web and mobile versions of your content can safely perform in the same index and Google will rank your mobile content better for mobile device users.

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[MoosaHemani]

I believe the most efficient and easiest idea is to include user-agent detection and it will help visitor server the correct version of the website. This means when a visitor will be on a computer it will detect the user and show the normal website but if the visitor is visiting the website through mobile version it will automatically show the mobile version of the website.