MAF Publishing
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What is the most SEO-friendly way to go about mass A/B testing of the front page of a site? It seems like it would be easy to annoy Google.
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Bottom_Line
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The ideal SEO-friendly way for mass A/B testing of the front page according to me is to use server-side test methods that don't depend on JavaScript redirection or cloaking.
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If you simply want to A/B test your users, I would stick one of the two tests to the Google bots exclusively (just setting it on the headers serverside checking for all the regular user agents that Google use for crawling)
Still be aware, that this could be risky to some extent because Google sometimes uses other agents just to check that the page is not cloacking/deceiving the crawlers.