The Moz Q&A Forum

    • Forum
    • Questions
    • My Q&A
    • Users
    • Ask the Community

    Welcome to the Q&A Forum

    Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.

    1. SEO and Digital Marketing Q&A Forum
    2. Categories
    3. Technical SEO Issues
    4. Prevent mobile site from appearing in the sitelinks of desktop search

    Prevent mobile site from appearing in the sitelinks of desktop search

    Technical SEO Issues
    4 3 681
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as question
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • shebinhassan
      shebinhassan last edited by

      Hi,

      IWe have this mobile page that keeps on appearing in the google search. I even try to put it in the robots.txt to disallow the crawler but still it keeps on popping on the search results.

      How can I prevent it from displaying?

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • RyanKent
        RyanKent last edited by

        Adding the "noindex" meta tag to the page will stop Google and Bing/Yahoo from indexing the page, and it will cause them to remove the page from the index if it has already been added.

        It is important you remove the block from the robots.txt file because the search engines wont crawl the page to see the changed meta tag while it is blocked with robots.txt.

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
        • sesertin
          sesertin last edited by

          If you want to remove that page quicker from the index you can do that through wem master tools. Although I am not sure you want to do that as if the page is blocked from google it will not be able to show up in the mobile search neither. Wehn optimizig for mobile it is good to put contet on a different sub (ex: mobile.sg) and also put mobile to the end of the title tags.Do you do all this stuff to indicate google what is that content for?

          shebinhassan 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • shebinhassan
            shebinhassan @sesertin last edited by

            Actually we are using a cms and what we do is just to redirect it a different page. like mHome.aspx which means that it is a mobile site. Yes put mobile on the title tag.

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • 1 / 1
            • First post
              Last post
            • How can I make sure a desktoppage is shown in the (desktop) search results instead of the mobile page?
              bridget.randolph
              bridget.randolph
              0
              4
              51

            • Desktop & Mobile XML Sitemap Submitted But Only Desktop Sitemap Indexed On Google Search Console
              bridget.randolph
              bridget.randolph
              0
              6
              1.6k

            • GWT Fetch & Render displays desktop version of site as mobile
              bridget.randolph
              bridget.randolph
              0
              2
              64

            • Will Google Also Penalize Desktop Rankings If Your Site is Not Mobile Friendly?
              Christy-Correll
              Christy-Correll
              1
              7
              408

            • Mobile site ranking instead of/as well as desktop site in desktop SERPS
              bridget.randolph
              bridget.randolph
              0
              7
              455

            • Mobile SEO for mobile site
              AndieF
              AndieF
              0
              2
              277

            • Want to Target Mobile site for Google Mobile Version and Desktop Site for Google Desktop Version
              Cyrus-Shepard
              Cyrus-Shepard
              0
              4
              1.6k

            • Mobile site rank on Google S.E. instead of desktop site.
              Webmaster_SEO
              Webmaster_SEO
              0
              3
              1.1k

            Get started with Moz Pro!

            Unlock the power of advanced SEO tools and data-driven insights.

            Start my free trial
            Products
            • Moz Pro
            • Moz Local
            • Moz API
            • Moz Data
            • STAT
            • Product Updates
            Moz Solutions
            • SMB Solutions
            • Agency Solutions
            • Enterprise Solutions
            • Digital Marketers
            Free SEO Tools
            • Domain Authority Checker
            • Link Explorer
            • Keyword Explorer
            • Competitive Research
            • Brand Authority Checker
            • Local Citation Checker
            • MozBar Extension
            • MozCast
            Resources
            • Blog
            • SEO Learning Center
            • Help Hub
            • Beginner's Guide to SEO
            • How-to Guides
            • Moz Academy
            • API Docs
            About Moz
            • About
            • Team
            • Careers
            • Contact
            Why Moz
            • Case Studies
            • Testimonials
            Get Involved
            • Become an Affiliate
            • MozCon
            • Webinars
            • Practical Marketer Series
            • MozPod
            Connect with us

            Contact the Help team

            Join our newsletter
            Moz logo
            © 2021 - 2026 SEOMoz, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. All rights reserved. Moz is a registered trademark of SEOMoz, Inc.
            • Accessibility
            • Terms of Use
            • Privacy