Any advice for best practice for mobile versions of websites?
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Hi Mozzers,
I am looking to develop a mobile version of one of my sites and was wondering what was considered best practice for the following:
- Where to host it: m.domain.com or domain.com/mobile ?
- Is rel='canonical' enough to avoid mobile version being indexed or should I use "noindex" on mobile version?
- How to handle tablets? Which screen size sees mobile version? Which sees full site version?
Thanks in advance
Geoff
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Thanks,
Might pass that on to the developer
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Here you can also find some good resources. Hope it helps.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72462
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Thanks Andrea,
The info on rel=alternate was really useful.
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details
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While not exhaustive to your questions, Wednesday SEOMoz hosted a Mozcation in Milwaukee and one of the presenters spoke to mobile. Here's a link to his presentation, in case you find it interesting:http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14562864?hostedIn=slideshare&page=upload
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