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Originally Posted by spacedog
google does not penalize you for mobile redirects as long as you tell google that the url redirected to is the mobile version of your website.
place this in your header.
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<link rel="alternate" media="handheld" href="http://theredirectedurl.com" />
This tells google that the redirected url is the MOBILE VERSION. You will not be penalized. Google specifically tells you to do this. This also tells google that visits from their mobile search engine shall send visitors to the url specified rather than the url listed in the results.
IE: yourfuckingdomain.com is in the results for "This Keyword", however, when user clicks it, google sends them to redirecturl.com because you told google to do so. |
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=35312
How does Google modify web pages for mobile viewing?
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Google Web Search on mobile phones allows users to search all the content in the Google index for desktop web browsers. Because this content isn't written specifically for mobile phones and devices and thus might not display properly, web search results are viewed through our transcoder, which analyzes the original HTML code and converts it to a mobile-ready format. To ensure that the highest quality and most useable web page is displayed on your mobile phone or device, Google may resize, adjust, or convert images, text formatting and/or certain aspects of web page functionality.
If you do not want Google to transcode your web page, you may request that Google redirect the user to an alternate page whenever the user attempts to view the page through the transcoder. You can do so by including the following line in the <HEAD> section of the HTML file for your page:
<link rel="alternate" media="handheld" href="alternate_page.htm" />
The alternate page should be a mobile-optimized version of the original page or a message informing the user that the site is not available on the phone.