Responsive Website Without Losing SEO Benefits

[jimmy0225]

Hi All,

I have been asking questions pertaining to making a site mobile friendly without jeapordizing the benefit of SEO.  However, I have been suggestion ways to do it; So, I would like to broadly pose the question and receive advise on how some of the professionals would go about making changes or not.

I have a site that is going pretty strong for some keyword on all search engines, it is Yahoo hosted and was created with SiteBuilder, wtihout losing any SEO Benefit I wouldl ike to know if this was your company how you would go about making the site responsive to mobile, ipads, etc...

thanks

Jim

[TommyTan]

Hi Jim,

I may be wrong but by simply adding some HTML and CSS code to your website to make it responsive, it wouldn't lose any of the seo benefits.  Actually it has more benefit than not making the websie responsive.

To make it responsive to mobile and ipads, I would simply enter some CSS code to make the page look different based on what they are using, desktop, mobile or tablet.  By making it responsive, you don't lose any of the SEO benefits.

[SVmedia]

I don't believe you'll lose any benefit by having a responsive site, as long as it still contains the same content/html markup. You may have trouble converting your current fixed-width site to a responsive layout though.  Responsive layouts are accomplished through CSS media queries (different properties/values based on viewport size).

If you're using a "template" it may be easier to just get a different one that's responsive and re-create it.  I don't know jack about SiteBuilder, but there's loads of responsive templates out there for Joomla and Wordpress.