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Questions tagged [googlebot-mobile]

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Google Mobile Friendly test shows "other error" for resource loads

I get the error "Couldn't load 23 page resources" when doing the mobile friendly test at https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly However, the error message is (the rather unfriendly) "Other error." When I visit the site in Chrome using…
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Screen resolution of Googlebot mobile?

Does Googlebot-Mobile have a viewport resolution it sends across? If so, what is it? It's a general question with broad relevance, but I am asking with reference to responsive design: particularly when serving different image resolution to different…
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How to allow Googlebot to crawl paywall content?

My website has pages for around 1000 companies. Without an account, I only allow users to view 5 company pages a month (I track them by cookie). And Googlebot can crawl my site freely since it does not use cookie. To avoid Googlebot thinking I am…
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Google wrongly marks my mobile friendly site as not-friendly

I have a site for creating random passwords: http://passwordcreator.org I was very surprised to get a notice that the site has mobile problems because it is mobile friendly. Here are the things that Google is complaining about: Size content to…
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Embedded YouTube videos make my site fail Google's mobile optimization tests

I have a website with a responsive theme optimized for mobile. Despite that, many pages don't pass the "mobile-friendly test" from Google (https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly) Here is the result of the validation attempt on Google's…
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How to redirect googlebot with mobile user agent to the mobile version, if users are redirected with media query

The setup is absolutely so, as Google recommends: www.example.com has a media query for narrower display sizes and redirects users to m.example.com, if display becomes narrower, as setting. Both versions are tied to each other with…
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Does every page HAVE to be mobile friendly even if its almost unimportant?

I received the following regarding a URL of a page recommending a feature that only applies to desktop users: Faulty Redirect URLs redirect to an irrelevant landing page instead of the equivalent, smartphone-optimized version of the desktop…
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Should i disallow my mobile url's via robots.txt?

I'm trying to code my sites mobile version. it will be like this: www.example.com => mobile.example.com im using this alternate tag in desktop page; thats ok:
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Is it important to add a mobile sitemap?

I've recently added a mobile version of a web-app. Most web-page URL's like mydomain.com/folder/page now have another version mydomain.com/mobile/folder/page In the web-page I've added:
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Prevent crawling of mobile site will impact the actual's site ranking or indexing?

We have a responsive mobile-first indexing site in place. Unfortunately, the m.example.com - mobile version is also there and it ranks for certain keywords. We don't want to have such a separate m.example.com site. Noted that, disallowing the mobile…
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Disqus comments cause "clickable elements too close together" in Google Search Console mobile usabality report

I just got an email from Google that they found some problems on my site: clickable elements too close together Content wider than screen I fetched problematic URLs as Googlebot and noticed that it is most likely caused by Disqus. Here's how…
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Will googlebot misinterpret my site if I had no spacing between anchor tags?

Some sections of my website involve displaying a list of photo thumbnails. The source code to that is similar to the following when condensed:
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I also use stylesheets to format the…
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Dynamic Serving: Verifying which version of the page Google is showing on Mobile SERPs

We have a large content/informational site which serves pages dynamically based on user device (the same URL for both desktop and mobile). Title tags for mobile pages do not match those set for desktop pages, and what we are seeing in Google SERPs…
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Google mobile usability errors - resources blocked by robots.txt

I received an email from Google saying my site has some mobile usability issues. The email said the following: We’ve found critical mobile usability issues in pages on my website. Mobile usability errors can severely affect the user experience…
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Discrepancy in Recent warning to Fix mobile usability issues

Our website has a desktop version and a separate mobile version (/mobile) which is determined in the .htaccess file when mobile users access the site they are taken specifically to the mobile site. Recently, we were notified inside Google Webmaster…
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