301 Redirect to mobile site effecting rankings

[cbielich]

On my site I redirect users when on a mobile device to be redirected to my mobile version of my site. In the last couple weeks I added that redirect in my htaccess file. I just realized today that I am doing a 301 redirect. In the last few weeks my ranking have gotten lower. I am starting to think that because of the redirect my mobile site is not as optimized as my regular site and therefor is effecting my rankings.

My question is how can I redirect my users to my mobile site but not use a 301 AND how do I get google to use my main site content for ranking on the mobile side. I want to go back to getting my search rankings on the mobile side using my main sites content. Can I simply remove the 301 on the redirect?

Hope that makes sense.

[ocelot]

I am using the following script that works well which may help you?

But the question I have to add to the discussion is from the jquerymobile site I want to add a link to the full website if the user chooses to view the full site.

The problem with the above script is that because there is a redirect to the mobile site it ends up in a loop so the user can never see the full website if they so wish

1.) How can I get around this? (I would rather use javascript if possible because some of my sites are not using php

2.) Will Google see the content on the mobile pages as duplicate content?   At present I have put a noindex on the mobile site - is this the correct way of dealing with it?

[cchhita]

Not sure if this helps, but Duane Forrester from Bing stated at a conference I attended recently that it is better to use one URL for your desktop and Mobile site.

Here is an article suggesting the same: http://www.seroundtable.com/bing-mobile-seo-14861.html

One thing he did say was that if I come to your site via my desktop and do a search, I would like to obtain the same results if I searched your site on my phone.

The article does state that in some cases you would want to have different mobile pages from your desktop version.

Also, how have you applied a 301 redirect for mobile pages only?

[cbielich]

The results are the same on both pages for sure.

I was using a htaccess file to do it with a 301.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/m/.$RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|ipad|iphone|ipod|iemobile|opera mobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile" [NC]RewriteRule ^(.)$ /m/ [L,R=301]

[cbielich]

How do I reverse it so that google will use my desktop to rank my site on mobile? Do I simply redirect without the 301?