Google To Replace Smartphone User-Agent To Improve Smart Phone Indexing
Google announced they are replacing the old smartphone crawler user-agent with a new one in order to make it possible for Google to index more smartphone content. Zhijian He, a smartphone search engineer at Google said that the previous user-agent “made it impossible for Google to index…
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Reputation Management Mistakes, Challenges & Solutions for 2014 at ClickZ Live New York
With only a couple of months to go until the inaugural ClickZ Live New York show, we catch up with one of our forthcoming keynote speakers, Andy Beal, CEO of Trackur.com, who gives us his thoughts on reputation management for marketers.
Where does PR want to be in 2014? Andrew Smith Explains
Andrew Smith, Founder & MD, Escherman & CIPR/PRCA, spoke about “Challenges And Opportunities For PR In 2014”. PR is rapidly changing world and those involved need to change with it. Smith talked about these changes.
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Yahoo Search Goes SSL: Not Provided
Yahoo is now defaulting all their search results over SSL, which is secure search but also means that pesky [not provided] figure will increase.
Danny Sullivan broke the story at Search Engine Land yesterday. In short, if you do a search at Yahoo.c…
How to Bake SEO into the Marketing Cake: Integration as a Recipe for Excellence
Last year the SEO community talked about the importance of integrating SEO with marketing. Particularly enlightening was Search Engine Watch’s “The New SEO,” which discussed the importance of integration, particularly with PR and social.
3 Surprising Benefits Of Retargeting
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What is Duplicate Content?
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An Easy Way To Check What Referrer Data Google, Bing Or Yahoo Pass To Your Secure Site
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The notable sites are accompanied by little hyperlink drop downs that expand an overlay of information directly on the snippets…
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By integrating your content marketing with all the other elements of your marketing, sales, and branding processes, your content will have a much wider appeal, more visibility, and deliver greater results and benefits. Here’s how to make it work.
Resolved: The SEO Industry Should Embrace Broken Link Building
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A new Googlebot user-agent for crawling smartphone content
Webmaster level: Advanced
Over the years, Google has used different crawlers to crawl and index content for feature phones and smartphones. These mobile-specific crawlers have all been referred to as Googlebot-Mobile. However, feature phones and smartphones have considerably different device capabilities, and we’ve seen cases where a webmaster inadvertently blocked smartphone crawling or indexing when they really meant to block just feature phone crawling or indexing. This ambiguity made it impossible for Google to index smartphone content of some sites, or for Google to recognize that these sites are smartphone-optimized.
A new Googlebot for smartphones
To clarify the situation and to give webmasters greater control, we’ll be retiring “Googlebot-Mobile” for smartphones as a user agent starting in 3-4 weeks’ time. From then on, the user-agent for smartphones will identify itself simply as “Googlebot” but will still list “mobile” elsewhere in the user-agent string. Here are the new and old user-agents:
The new Googlebot for smartphones user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
The Googlebot-Mobile for smartphones user-agent we will be retiring soon:Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
This change affects only Googlebot-Mobile for smartphones. The user-agent of the regular Googlebot does not change, and the remaining two Googlebot-Mobile crawlers will continue to refer to feature phone devices in their user-agent strings; for reference, these are:
Regular Googlebot user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
The two Googlebot-Mobile user-agents for feature phones:
SAMSUNG-SGH-E250/1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser/6.2.3.3.c.1.101 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)DoCoMo/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
You can test your site using the Fetch as Google feature in Webmaster Tools, and you can see a full list of our existing crawlers in the Help Center.
Crawling and indexing
Please note this important implication of the user-agent update: The new Googlebot for smartphones crawler will follow robots.txt, robots meta tag, and HTTP header directives for Googlebot instead of Googlebot-Mobile. For example, when the new crawler is deployed, this robots.txt directive will block all crawling by the new Googlebot for smartphones user-agent, and also the regular Googlebot:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /
This robots.txt directive will block crawling by Google’s feature phone crawlers:
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Disallow: /
Based on our internal analyses, this update affects less than 0.001% of URLs while giving webmasters greater control over the crawling and indexing of their content. As always, if you have any questions, you can:
- Read our recommendations for building smartphone-optimized sites
- Learn more about controlling Googlebot crawling and indexing
- Ask in our Webmaster help forums or visit one of our Webmaster Central office hours hangouts.
Posted by Zhijian He, Smartphone search engineer
New Google Shopping Overview & 4 New Tools
Google Shopping’s latest campaigns structure changes the already significant paid Product Ads on Google Shopping completely. Google Product Listing Ad (PLA) structure and management is changing fundamentally. Are you ready?
Live @ SMX West: Breathing New Life Into A Tired Paid Search Campaign
If you’ve been doing paid search for a while, you’ve undoubtedly run into a situation where you’re working on a campaign that’s been moderately successful, but has essentially been on autopilot and isn’t taking advantage of any new features that could enhance its…
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Old Spice Show What Social Buzz Is All About…
There are some strange websites out there on the internet and there are no stranger sites than the latest ones to pass through my browser this morning. No they aren’t illegal and no they aren’t something that I needed to use Tor proxies to access, instead they are the creation
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