Any advice for best practice for mobile versions of websites?

[SEM-Freak]

Hi Mozzers,

I am looking to develop a mobile version of one of my sites and was wondering what was considered best practice for the following:

• Where to host it: m.domain.com or domain.com/mobile ?
• Is rel='canonical' enough to avoid mobile version being indexed or should I use "noindex" on mobile version?
• How to handle tablets? Which screen size sees mobile version? Which sees full site version?

Thanks in advance

Geoff

[josh-riley]

While not exhaustive to your questions, Wednesday SEOMoz hosted a Mozcation in Milwaukee and one of the presenters spoke to mobile. Here's a link to his presentation, in case you find it interesting:http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14562864?hostedIn=slideshare&page=upload

[SEM-Freak]

Thanks Andrea,

The info on rel=alternate was really useful.

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details

[eyepaq]

Here you can also find some good resources. Hope it helps.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72462

[SEM-Freak]

Thanks,

Might pass that on to the developer