I have been testing xBanners with Xmobile, and I am noticing something that is terrifying me...
xBanners reports 3000+ impressions in less than 2 days, but only 11 clicks. OK, the 11 clicks are me. But 3000+ impressions? no way. Maybe 300 -- I look at the page long enough to decide if the edit is good, then I move on. I NEVER leave the homepage on mobile jurt running. The template is disabled, only accessed via Browser Preview Access code.
I fear that google or another bot has been crawling the mobile site, before we're done.
BUT i'm even more concerned that xMobile is not yet using the "Vary header"
Now, I believe in what's best for the customer is what I should do... this is very clear with xMobile:
1. customer uses a tablet or full size browser - they see my lovely desktop template;
2. customer uses a smart phone, they see xMobile template;
Same URLs. Same product content (for the most part ), formatted differently - slight differences in home page -- not much else differnet. Maybe less pages available to mobile vs. desktop.
I am happy with this -- but I am not happy if google thinks I have 2 sites and/or is confused as to which site is default or preferred.
I read about the "Vary" header...
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details
Yikes -- we needed this yesterday.
Am I correct in assuming the 3000+ banner impressions could be a bot?
WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING to keep search engines happy with dueling templates???
Until the vary header is in place, can we robots.txt the entire skin? I don't think so, because the URLs are identical. Especially with CDSEO.
So what's the short term fix until we get the Vary header going?
WHO ELSE IS RUNNING xMobile and what does your indexing look like? Please share!