Mobile update: referrer in alternate URL

[MarcelMoz]

Hi there,

A little while ago I posted a question about the upcoming mobile update. I am convinced about the fact that I must work on a solution before the update rolls out since a substancial part of our traffic has come from mobile devices.

My current issue: our webshop host is not willing to cooperate with the best possible solution our mobile webshop partner proposes.

This was the plan:

This is the only possible solution now:

The element 'request.url' will contain the full desktop URL which 301 redirects to the mobile URL.

My question is: will google have problems with the 301 redirect which refers to the right mobile URL?

Thanks in advance.
Marcel

[William.Lau]

These are directives for the crawlers, so I assume it will still work.

[DirkC]

You could try this solution and then do the mobile check https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ with the desktop url - if it passes the solution is ok, if not - you'll just have to put more pressure on your supplier.

rgds,

Dirk

[MarcelMoz]

Thank you both. I think we should go for this solution.

Marcel