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: Mobile site redirection and Google crawlers I have a HTML website where users can select a product (going through categories/subcategories) and then when they choose the product they can customize

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I have a HTML website where users can select a product (going through categories/subcategories) and then when they choose the product they can customize it in a Flash application.

I would like to redirect users with no Flash Player to a mobile site (which is also HTML) where they will have a smaller range of categories and a non-Flash version of app:

var hasFlash = ((typeof navigator.plugins != "undefined" && typeof navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"] == "object") || (window.ActiveXObject && (new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash")) != false));

if( !hasFlash ){
document.location.href = '/mobile';
}


But I suppose this method will cause Google spiders/crawlers to omit the original HTML website and just index the mobile site (limited categories and less content).

Is there any way that I could redirect the users with no Flash to the mobile site, but make the Google crawlers to index the original site?

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@Cugini213

Google doesn't run your JavaScript, so you don't have to worry about this specific issue. Also note that Google cannot always index content in SWF files.

In general, I would suggest having your no-Flash fallback content on the same page as the Flash content.

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