One good reason why i should have a mobile site map
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Good evening from I can just about keep my eyes open 7th cup of Coffeee David,
Ok I'm adding a mobile sitemap to a mobile site. Whilst I know this is important the client wants one good reason why he should have one integrated into http://www.innoviafilms.com/m/Home.aspx
I'm so knackered I cant articulate one, could some one put me out my misery and give me one good reason I should toil away with mobile xml; sitemap?
Resource:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34648
Any insights welcome
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Thank you Vahe
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Hi Nightwing,
Since you are not using the "JavaScript" detection and redirection method but instead using the subfolder method, Google considers them as additional pages on the desktop version of the site.
One good reason for creating a mobile sitemap. - They will allow search engines to better serve search requests from mobile devices and lead them to your relevant mobile pages.
To improve the likelihood for search engine serving your mobile content on mobile search results it would also be recommended to include the specific mobile crawlers in your robots.txt file.
You also don't have a link of the mobile version of your site on the desktop site. It would be important to include this on your site header for the same reason above.
Hope this helps,
Vahe
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Hi There
One good reason to create a mobile sitemap for specific mobile content:
- Because Google encourage it. Check out http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34648
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
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Sure!
Here's a great video and info on it:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
-Margarita
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Hi Margarita and thanks for you reply
If you get a chance what does this mean please?
"and it is also a best practice to set the canonical link elements of on your mobile site to point to your regular site"
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it is a best practice to have a mobile XML sitemap and is a way of informing Google that you do have mobile content. As far as a reason to "not" create one, as far as I know, Google still has one index for regular web and mobile, and it is also a best practice to set the canonical link elements of on your mobile site to point to your regular site. Lastly, as long as the site identifies the device the visitor is using, and serves the right version you should be okay.
Hope this helps at least to point you on the right direction!
Best,
Margarita
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