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    How important is it to canonicalize mobile URLs to desktop URLs?

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    • nicole.healthline
      nicole.healthline last edited by

      I know many SEO's prefer a stylesheet and single URL, but if you use m.domain.com, do you canonicalize to your desktop URLS?

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      • Highland
        Highland last edited by

        Matt Cutts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY9h3G8Lv4k

        Google's Blog

        To kind of summarize, Google has normal bot and mobile bot. So long as you're serving up data consistently you should be fine.

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        • NakulGoyal
          NakulGoyal last edited by

          I would block m.domain.com from all crawlers except Googlebot-Mobile. At the same time, I would block domain.com from Googlebot-Mobile.

          I hope that helps.

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