Partial mobile sitemap
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Hi,
We have a main www website with a standard sitemap. We also have a m. site for mobile content (but m. is only for our top pages and doesn't include the entire site). If a mobile client accesses one of our www pages we redirect to the m. page. If we don't have a m. version we keep them on the www site. Currently we block robots from the mobile site.
Since our m. site only contains the top pages, I'm trying to determine the boost we might get from creating a mobile sitemap. I don't want to create the "partial" mobile sitemap and somehow have it hurt our traffic.
Here is my plan
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update m. pages to point rel canonical to appropriate www page (makes sure we don't dilute SEO across m. and www.)
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create mobile sitemap and allow all robots to access site.
Our www pages already rank fairly highly so just want to verify if there are any concerns since m. is not a complete version of www?
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Have a look at the resources below and let me know if you need more help. Responsive web design is recommended by Google but it does not apply to all websites. You have to take into consideration things like user intent, navigation, content. There is a lot of debate about it here on Seomoz and I would proceed carefully by reading some of the resources below. One thing I would advice though is to keep the robots blocked until you figure out what you want. In my opinion, Bryson Meunier has written quite a lot about the subject on several respected blogs in the industry.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/search/label/mobile
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-of-responsive-web-design
http://www.seomoz.org/q/mobile-seo-tips-and-best-practices
Hope it helps!
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