Mobile website settings - I am doing right?

[GeorgFranz]

Hi,

http://www.schicksal.com has a "normal" and a "mobile' version.

We are using a browser detection routine to redirect the visitor to the "default site" or the "mobile site".

The mobile site is here:
 http://www.schicksal.com/m

The robots.txt contains these lines:

User-agent: *
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /m
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Disallow: /
Allow: /m

Sitemap: http://www.schicksal.com/sitemaps/index

So, the idea is: Only allow the Googlebot-Mobile Bot to access the mobile site.

We have also separate sitemaps for default and mobile version. One of the mobile sitemap is here

My problem: Webmaster tool is saying that Google received 898 urls from the mobile sitemap, but none has been indexed. (Google has indexed 550 from the "web sitemap".) I've checked the webmaster tools - no errors on the sitemap.

So, if you are searching at google.com/m - you are getting results from the default web page, but not the mobile version.

This is not that bad because you will be redirected to the mobile version.

So, my question:

Is this the "normal" behaviour? Or is there something wrong with my config?

Would it be better to move the mobile site to a subdomain like m.schicksal.com?

Best wishes,

Georg.

[GeorgFranz]

Hi George,

thanks for the link!

It looks like google has changed the mobile rules.

I've added a new meta tag:
http://www.schicksal.com/Astrologie/Astro-Schule/Transite

and on the mobile version:

And I've removed the robots.txt entries.

I cannot use the "vary" - "User-Agent" header because the site needs to be cachable by varnish.

Let's see whats happening in the next days.

Best wishes,

Georg.

[Saijo.George]

Just a FYI , Big G recommends responsive web design when it comes to mobile pages

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/recommendations-for-building-smartphone.html

so if you have an in house developer you might want to go down that road.