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Frodik
Frodik

Reputation: 15455

How to tell Google to recognize mobile-version and full-version of the web?

I have created mobile-optimized version of my web. Full version runs at www.domain.com and the mobile version runs at m.domain.com. Now I DO want to use this domain scheme for certain reasons.

Now when I try to search Google, sometimes I get results from both domains - which I don't think is good experience for the users - coming with desktop browser to a simple mobile-version of the web. Also I want to avoid duplicate-content problem.

What would be the best practice to "tell" Google that www.domain.com is full version website and m.domain.com is the website with the same content but with very simple design optimised for mobile users ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2399

Answers (3)

Mountain Marketing Solutions
Mountain Marketing Solutions

Reputation: 1

You should add a rel alternate on your desktop that points to the mobile URL and a rel conical on the mobile site that points to the desktop. For more clarity on this watch the video by Google's Matt Cutts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVQHbfpqXHM

Upvotes: 0

nLL
nLL

Reputation: 5672

You should really use

<link rel="alternate" media="handheld" href="http://mobileversion..."/>

Upvotes: 1

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887469

Make m. URLs redirect (or <link rel="canonical">) to desktop URLs for spider UAs.

Make desktop URLs redirect to m. URLs for mobile UAs.

Upvotes: 2

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