{"id":24956,"date":"2016-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/an-update-on-googles-feature-phone-crawling-and-indexing\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"an-update-on-googles-feature-phone-crawling-and-indexing","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/an-update-on-googles-feature-phone-crawling-and-indexing\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on Google’s feature-phone crawling and indexing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 30, 2016<\/p>\n

\n Limited mobile devices,
\n “feature-phones<\/a>“,
\n require a special form of markup or a transcoder for web content. Most websites don’t provide
\n feature-phone-compatible content in WAP\/WML any more. Given these developments, we’ve made changes
\n in how we crawl feature-phone content (note: these changes don’t affect smartphone content):\n<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n We’ve retired the feature-phone Googlebot<\/strong>: We won’t be using the feature-phone
    \n user agents for crawling for search going forward.\n <\/li>\n
  2. \n

    \n Use “handheld” link annotations for dynamic serving of feature-phone content<\/strong>:
    \n Some sites provide content for feature-phones through dynamic serving, based on the user’s
    \n user agent. To understand this configuration, make sure your desktop and smartphone pages have
    \n a self-referential alternate URL link for handheld (feature-phone) devices:\n <\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n

    \n This is a change from our previous guidance of only using the vary: user-agent<\/code>
    \n HTTP header. We’ve updated our documentation on
    \n     making feature-phone pages<\/a>
    \n accordingly. We hope adding this link element is possible on your side, and thank you for your
    \n help in this regard. We’ll continue to show feature-phone URLs in Search when we can recognize
    \n them, and when they’re appropriate for users.\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    \n We’re retiring feature-phone tools in Search Console<\/strong>: Without the
    \n feature-phone Googlebot, special sitemaps extensions for feature-phone, the Fetch as Google
    \n feature-phone options, and feature-phone crawl errors are no longer needed. We continue to
    \n support
    \n     sitemaps<\/a> and other sitemap
    \n extensions (such as for     videos<\/a> \u0438\u043b\u0438
    \n     Google News<\/a>), as well as the other
    \n     Fetch as Google<\/a>
    \n options in
    \n     Search Console<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \n We’ve worked to make these changes as minimal as possible. Most websites don’t serve feature-phone
    \n content, and wouldn’t be affected. If your site has been providing feature-phone content, we thank
    \n you for your help in bringing the Internet to feature-phone users worldwide!\n<\/p>\n

    \n For any questions, you can drop by our
    \n     Webmaster Help Forums<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n

    \n Posted by
    \n     John Mueller<\/a>, Webmaster
    \n Trends Analyst, Google Switzerland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wednesday, November 30, 2016 Limited mobile devices, “feature-phones“, require a special form of markup or a transcoder for web content. Most websites don’t provide feature-phone-compatible content in WAP\/WML any more. Given these developments, we’ve made changes in how we crawl feature-phone content (note: these changes don’t affect smartphone content): We’ve retired the feature-phone Googlebot: We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":82865,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[665],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-24956","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=24956"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=24956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}