Mobile website follow or nofollow

[FRUTIKO]

Hi there

A while ago we constructed our responsive mobile version of our site. Content is same as desktop version urls are also same like below and we have cannonical tag for our urls for desktop version

http://www.frutiko.cz/miminko&view=mobile

http://www.frutiko.cz/miminko

our question is shell we follow our mobil version adressed http://www.frutiko.cz/?view=mobile#container

or having nofollow is better? any pros and cons?

note: according to OSE mobile urls have page autority

Thanks in advance

Frutiko

[gazzerman1]

You have done the right thing using the canonical tag, I presume if a mobile user goes to one of your pages they will be redirected to a mobile page?

If so I see little advantage in having the page indexed. For the safety of your site with regards to Panda I would noindex those pages.

Google have said there is no penalty for internal duplicate content but it is what they don't say that is the problem. There is an algorithmic devaluation and you don't want the hassle.

[FRUTIKO]

Hey Gary

Thanks for serving your time.

It is an extention for opencart (module) that recognize user is using mobile device, redirects to mobile version.

http://www.frutiko.cz/?view=mobile#container which has nofollow tag on our main page. is it better to have it follow?

and each url has some PA at OSE that means us they are indexed at mobile search?having a noindex is better for that sites like above?

http://www.frutiko.cz/cokoladove-jahody&view=mobile

[bridget.randolph]

Hi,

If you have a separate mobile site with separate URLs, you shouldn't use regular canonicals, you should use the mobile version, called switchboard tags. This will indicate to Google that your mobile version is a mobile version and not simply duplicate content. You do want Google to be able to index your mobile pages as they have a separate smartphone crawler and a mobile index.

To implement switchboard tags:

On the desktop page, add:

and on the mobile page, the annotation should be:

This rel="canonical" tag on the mobile URL pointing to the desktop page is required.

As far as the nofollow question: What I would recommend is that you redirect mobile user agents (which will include the Googlebot for Smartphone) to the mobile version (most relevant page, not just homepage) and redirect desktop user agents landing on your mobile pages to the desktop version. Always include an option to 'view desktop version' or 'view mobile version' so that users can choose to override the redirect. That link should also take the user to the desktop/mobile version of that page, not just the homepage.

Hope that helps!