Only the mobile version of the site is being indexed
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We've got an interesting situation going on at the moment where a recently on-boarded clients site is being indexed and displayed, but it's on the mobile version of the site that is showing in serps. A quick rundown of the situation.
- Retail shopping center with approximately 200 URLS
- Mobile version of the site is www.mydomain.com/m/
- XML sitemap submitted to Google with 202 URLs, 3 URLS indexed
- Doing site:www.mydomain.com in a Google search brings up the home page (desktop version) and then everything else is /m/ versions.
- There is no rel="canonical" on mobile site pages to their desktop counterpart (working on fixing that)
- We have limited CMS access, but developers are open to working with us on whatever is needed.
- Within desktop site source code, there are no "noindex, nofollow, etc" issues on the pages.
- No manual actions, link issues, etc
Has anyone ever encoutnered this before? Any input or thoughts are appreciated. Thanks
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Fantastic, We'll take a look and get this running with them. Thanks!
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Hi there
You need to let Google know this relationship between your desktop site and mobile site, and soon. I highly recommend reading Separate URLs from Google. This will give you everything you need.
Run through that with your web development team.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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