Movil Migration
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I have a question!
We are about to migrate from one version of mobile where we used a different desktop to a mobile version (non-adaptive) which has the same URL URL desktop.We must make a 302 redirect and remove the Canonical and linkages by code?
That's the way to do migration?
Thank You !! -
Gracias Bridget!
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Hi Romaro,
Migrating from a separate mobile version of a site to a version which shares the same URL should work like any other domain migration.
You should 301 the old URLs to the equivalent page on the new version, and remove the switchboard tag code from the desktop pages.
Hope that helps!
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