Mobile Meta Descriptions?
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Hi Guys,
We have two different versions of each page for both desktop and mobile example:
We want to create meta descriptions for both versions. However in the CMS (http://www.mantistech.com.au/ecommerce_website_package.aspx) it only allows one meta description. Example: http://s21.postimg.org/ar8bzrh3r/screenshot_1804.jpg
Does anyone know anyway around this? To add two different meta descriptions and tell Google which one to use based on device type.
Thanks.
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Sitemap is little bit tricky. There isn't free tool that make sitemaps with desktop/mobile annotations. That's why you need to talk with CMS authors and they to make plugin for it. Or outsource to 3rd party.
Same is with desktop/mobile linking. It's much better if they make this change.
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Thanks Peter!
In the google developer guidelines it mentions:
On the desktop page, add a special link rel=”alternate” tag pointing to the corresponding mobile URL. This helps Googlebot discover the location of your site’s mobile pages.
On the mobile page, add a link rel=”canonical” tag pointing to the corresponding desktop URL.
On this CMS there seems to be one version of each page then it creates two versions: mobile + desktop.
It mentions you need both, one on the desktop and one on the mobile version.
So i guess the only solution would be adding the annotations to the sitemap, which would manually need to be done for every new page? I wonder if there're any tools which can help with this.
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You can't add two meta descriptions and there isn't workaround. Seems as CMS limitation.
BUT! There is something much more scary - you have lot of duplicate content because you have two versions of each page. You can fix it with adding on mobile version canonical to the desktop version. And you must put rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" on desktop with link to mobile version. Everything is described very clear here:
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls
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