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KarlBantleman last edited by

Hi Mozzers,

A website I manage has a mobile friendly version of their main website and a /m version as well. I was wondering if anyone had any experience in the best way of handling this? Should we just get rid of the /m version and tag the mobile friendly version?

Thanks!
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OlegKorneitchouk @KarlBantleman last edited by

Yep.
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KarlBantleman @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

Hi Oleg,

That's right, so the website scales depending on the device you are looking at the website on but there is also a /m/ version as well. So we should redirect the /m/ versions to the standard URL's?

Thanks again
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OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

Are you saying you have two mobile sites? One that loads on the desktop url based on UA and one that is located in the /m/ folder?

If so, 301 redirect from /m/ to new mobile urls (which would be same as desktop urls).

If I misunderstood, a specific example would be helpful.
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