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Untangling Your Mobile Metrics With Better Redirects
by Sherwood Stranieri. Search Engine Land, March 5, 2012. "A lot of mobile sites owners have trouble making sense of their metrics. In some extreme cases, they can't track referrals from any website besides their own desktop site, which of course is sending visits their way whenever someone approaches from a mobile phone.
The trouble is potentially two-fold: not only is it hard to track visitors, but once Google’s December changes take effect, it may be hard to attract those visitors in the first place.
One common source of this tracking problem is the series of redirects that make-up the desktop-to-mobile switchboard..."
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Last updated: 7 March 2012Related Links
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- Posted by Yoshikiyo Kato, Software Engineer. Google Webmaster Central Blog, Thursday, December 15, 2011. "With the number of smartphone users rapidly rising, we’re seeing more and more websites providing content specifically designed to be browsed on smartphones. Today we are happy to announce that Googlebot-Mobile now crawls with a smartphone user-agent in addition to its previous feature phone user-agents. This is to increase our coverage of smartphone content and to provide a better search experience for smartphone users.
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