dimanche 29 septembre 2019

How to inform Google a certain page in the website desktop view has more than one page in the mobile version?

Imagine there is a webpage, for example, profile page of a social network. Users by desktop devices see the profile page at this URL example.com/profile/john-doe which shows all of the user information in one single page. But users by mobile device, see a bunch of tabs (ex: about, posts, links, pictures) and each tab represents relevant information. Here are links that mobile users will have:

  1. example.com/profile/john-doe?tab=about
  2. example.com/profile/john-doe?tab=posts
  3. example.com/profile/john-doe?tab=links
  4. example.com/profile/john-doe?tab=pictures

The canonical link of the desktop page is equal to the URL (example.com/profile/john-doe), and the canonical link of the mobile version is also as same as the current URL with active tab, ex: example.com/profile/john-doe?tab=about or example.com/profile/john-doe?tab=pictures.

This caused problems in Google search result, that shows multiple pages with tabs that found on mobile devices on the desktop search result. Means the desktop user does not see 4 different results for one john-doe page.

The other problem is that the search console excluded many links because Google probably noticed bad URL usage pattern.


Is there any special meta tag or solution to inform Google that these certain mobile pages belong to one page in desktop?




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