IsMobileDevice Google Bot problem

Question

Hi, i have a website that have 2 verisions 1 righular and the other fo mobile it"s working great , but when google bot research my site , my site shown on google as amobile ver. i think google bot pass the line:

if(Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice)
   ....redirect to the mobile ver (Not good for google it"s not the right ver)

you know a way to prevent that google refer to the mobile site

thanks

Answer 1

Yes, the problem is by default, the method Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice returns true for any User Agent it doesn't know about.

The trick is to add another .browsers file that identifies all the bots (this will happen with all of them, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) as NOT mobile devices.

I put a ticket in about this and explain it in detail here: http://mdbf.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=3906