Indexing specified entry pages
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Hi,We are currently working on location based info.Basically, when someone searches from Florida they will get specific Florida results and when they search from California they will specific California results.How does this location based info affect crawling and indexing?Lets say we have location info for googlebot, sometimes they crawl from a New York ip address, sometimes they do it from Texas and sometimes from California. In this case google will index 3 different pages with 3 different prices and a bit different text, and I'm afraid they might see these as some kind of cloaking or suspicious movement because we serve different versions of the page.
What's the best way to handle this?
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Hi Donnie, You might like to check out this previous discussion here in Q&A: http://www.seomoz.org/q/serving-different-content-based-on-ip-location Does that help?
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I don't know the best way to handle this. But maybe this would work.
Using an example site built for attorneys that provides search functionality where users can pare down an entire list of attorneys by searching with keywords such as tax, miami, divorce, etc...
Using your location based info, you can provide a separate URL for each location. The keywords or search parameters would be sent as a query string or post data to a page like the following:
Example:
- http://www.example.com/florida/attorneys
- http://www.example.com/california/attorneys
- http://www.example.com/new-york/attorneys
Since you know which locations you are targeting, you can add the main URLs to your site map and possibly even include them as links on your main search page in a "popular searches" section.
Example:
Popular Searches
The main category would include all results for that state.
This is an idea anyway, hope it helps!
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