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    • bonnierSEO
      bonnierSEO last edited by

      We're going to be running our mobile site on the same domain and generating content for users on mobile devices with style sheets (will not have m.domain). The content on our URLs will be the exact same.

      My question is if we need to create a mobile XML Sitemap to submit to the search engines.

      Do we need to create the Sitemap, that will contain the exact same URLs as our non-mobile Sitemap, and just include <mobile><mobile>tags around the URLs? Or do we need to create a mobile Sitemap at all to alert the search engines that we have mobile content?</mobile></mobile>

      Thanks!

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      • glennfriesen
        glennfriesen last edited by

        As long as there's a reference to the XML sitemap, in either configuration, you should be fine with the one sitemap.

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