We have a main website (www_blahblah_com) and just recently have a mobile site (www_blahblah_com/mobile) construted which besides a few pages has all blogs from the main site. All pages (about 4 pages) and blogs (hundreds) duplicated from the main website. Please let me know if a) the site would be loosing ranking points for duplicating content b) is there any way to communicate to Google no to count mobile site as a duplicate Thank you in advance for your recommendations/answers
@tiRo > so you basically have some of the content duplicated on the mobile site? Have you had your m/site for a long time? - Thx for reply
Google must be coming across tons of this situation these days. So I'm sure they're getting better at handling it. Personally I'd block the mobile version of your site via robots.txt and meta tags. Then just have a redirect for users when they are accessing your site via a mobile device. A better situation is where a user is just given different CSS stylesheets based on their browser.
@SS-Q > we do have a totally different CSS set and will have different page content. However the blog posts will be duplicated. We are planning to disallow /mobile/blog/*. But wondering moving further as we need more content duplicated from main site pages, will it affect the ranking. Coincidently I noticed that since a couple weeks the site ranking lost a couple of points on a number of keywords
That's not surprising. Google might've got confused about which page is more important when the content is the same. Block that duplicate content asap.
@SS-Q > doing it today - hopefully it will be reversed soon, Funny, it takes one day to downgrade the site ranking and then months to get it back
Yup that sucks. After you do that, do some extra link building. Do what you can get the Google spiders back to your site more. Convince them that those pages are more important than the ones they noticed on your mobile site.