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myarro
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
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Posted: 04/07/2005 09:00 am
I was wondering if creating a high-bandwidth (Flash-based, bells and whistles) and a low-bandwidth (straight HTML/CSS) of the same Web site to accomodate users needs/wants would be seen as spamming by search engines?
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bhartzer
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Posted: 04/07/2005 09:04 am
Many people do this all the time. What you need to do is identify when the search engines (googlebot, for example) come to visit your site and feed them only one version of the site.
Or, simply let them spider only one version of the site (using the robots.txt file).
If the search engines find two versions of the site you will run into duplicate content penalties. By managing how the search engines spider your site you won't run into those potential problems.
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myarro
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Posted: 04/07/2005 09:17 am
But, I was under the impression that the search bots don't neccessarily follow the robots.txt instructions.
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bhartzer
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Posted: 04/07/2005 09:34 am
The main bots follow them. Googlebot, Yahoo!, and MSN allow obey the robots.txt file.
If you really wanted to you could set it up so that you identify their IP and feed them a lower-bandwidth version of the site to bots, but that's totally unnecessary.
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myarro
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Posted: 04/07/2005 09:44 am
So essentially, have the low-bandwith site be the main site and if you detected the plug-in/or have an opt-in link, that would be the alternate site which you would block using robots.txt?
Also, would the blocked links or a redirect to the alternate site cause problems with the bots?
Thanks for all your help.
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bhartzer
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Posted: 04/07/2005 10:02 am
Yes, I would feed the bots the low-bandwidth version-that can be the default. It's fine to give them the high-bandwidth version if you can detect that the user has a plug-in or an opt-in link; you could even give them a cookie.
Also, would the blocked links or a redirect to the alternate site cause problems with the bots?
You're telling the not to index those pages via the robots.txt file. That should be enough. You could also make it a javascript link (it's difficult for them to follow javascript links) and you could also put a "rel=nofollow" attribute on the links so that they're not followed.
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