Title: [Plugin: WordPress Mobile Pack] Switcher Link / Duplicate content problem?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Mobile Pack] Switcher Link / Duplicate content problem?

 *  [Niklaus S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklaus-s/)
 * (@niklaus-s)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mobile-pack-switcher-link-duplicate-content-problem/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m still learning in the area of SEO, but I believe that the Mobile Switcher
   link creates duplicate content for search engines. E.g. I noticed that google
   caches pages with the wpmp_switcher paramater appended.
 * To solve this issue,I added rel=’nofollow’ inside the wpmp_switcher_link function(
   wpmp_switcher.php). I hope it helps.

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 *  [mdwish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdwish/)
 * (@mdwish)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mobile-pack-switcher-link-duplicate-content-problem/#post-1664153)
 * You make a good point.
 * I havent looked at the function but you might want to take it one step further
   and add the following to the header of the theme you’re using for the mobile 
   version of your site:
 * `<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />`
 * That way the page wont even get indexed. Nofollow doesn’t stop search engines
   from following the link, it just tells them you don’t trust the link.
 *  Thread Starter [Niklaus S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niklaus-s/)
 * (@niklaus-s)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mobile-pack-switcher-link-duplicate-content-problem/#post-1664154)
 * Good idea, but wouldn’t that also stop mobile bots from indexing the mobile site?
   
   Maybe it would work out better if noindex was shown only to mobile bots browsing
   desktop sites as well as desktop bots browsing mobile sites.
 * Though that would only help SEO if different versions of content for mobile and
   desktop bots don’t count as duplicate content or content cloaking. Since different
   content versions for mobile and desktop make a lot of sense from a user experience
   point of view, I hope they don’t cause any problems.
 *  [mdwish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdwish/)
 * (@mdwish)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mobile-pack-switcher-link-duplicate-content-problem/#post-1664155)
 * You’re correct that it would stop mobile bots also from indexing the site. It
   definitely depends on what you’re trying to accomplish with your mobile site.
 * I’m not sure what the impact is if you load up your page with handheld specific
   meta tags and such and how google sees that but I think if your site is just 
   a mobile compliant version of your desktop site then just noindex the mobile 
   version. Better than facing duplicate content penalties.
 * It may make sense, if you have differing content for mobile and desktop users
   to have your homepage redirect mobile users to a domain or subfolder for mobile
   content. That may help google understand your site structure properly and I would
   then allow google to crawl both sites.
 *  [pekton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pekton/)
 * (@pekton)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mobile-pack-switcher-link-duplicate-content-problem/#post-1664204)
 * I was getting the same even after removing the plugin. In google webmasters tool
   you can tell google to ignore certain parameters : wpmp_switcher. I just added
   all the different versions of the switcher parameter

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