Mobile Google Not Indexing Mobile Website
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Google currently does not index our mobile website. It has the WWW website in it's index. When a user from a mobile phone clicks on a mobile search result for WWW we redirect them to our mobile website.
This is posing problems for us as our mobile website is a fraction of the # of pages/sections as our WWW. So for example, mobile search results show that we have a "careers" section; but that's not the case for the mobile website. As a result a user gets a 404.
How do we force mobile Google to index our mobile website instead of our WWW?
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Hi Gemma,
I hope this response will be useful to you: it's not quite the same as forcing Google to index the mobile site, but it is highly likely to be the future of mobile SEO.
Have you read about HTML5? Basically, HTML5 means that you can present the same content (i.e. the www site) to all users, no matter which devices or browsers they're using, and use style sheets to provide mobile-friendly content. Although this post is about how this could mean the end of "apps" on mobile phones (because web-browsers will be able to deal with the content), this also shows how there is increasingly no need for "mobile versions" of a website, because the one site can handle all browsers: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/01/html5-is-great-for-mobile.php
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