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.

eyepaq

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

SEM-Freak

Thanks,

Might pass that on to the developer

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