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    • McSEO
      McSEO last edited by

      Hi

      we have a mobile version of our website at mobile.gardening-services-edinburgh.com

      its been live for 5, maybe 6 months, it has its own mobile-sitemap.xml

      have tried submitting this sitemap to google and for some reason it does not index these pages

      any ideas, most welcome

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      • Mobilio
        Mobilio last edited by

        I check quick your site both desktop and mobile. Only that seems you missing is last step with sitemap. Please see here:
        https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/configurations/separate-urls
        how Google recommend to annotate mobile webpages in sitemap.

        Rest is ok - you have alternate pages on desktop to mobile; you have proper canonical from mobile to desktop; you have some JavaScript redirect based on window.width that works too. Just sitemap links are missing.

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        • paints-n-design
          paints-n-design last edited by

          Why ever this page: /Edinburgh-driveway-installers.htm is indexed. The mobile friendly test workls on the sites I tested, also the not-indexed-once. So -> the bot see's the mobile version. Alternate and canocials seems to be ok, its just the indexing.

          You tried a new sitemap? You should add the mobile url's included alternate in the existing sitemap:

           <code><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><url><loc>http://www.yourdomain.com/page1/</loc></url></urlset></code> 
          
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          • McSEO
            McSEO @paints-n-design last edited by

            Hi

            good ans. thanks

            i already have a mobile-sitemap.xml

            do i need both?

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            • Mobilio
              Mobilio @McSEO last edited by

              You don't need BOTH sitemaps. You need ONE as i show you in mine link.

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              • paints-n-design
                paints-n-design @McSEO last edited by

                Like [Peter Nikolow](https://moz.com/users/view/397332) said, you need a special sitemap - that one for both like the code above or in his link i guess, or a special mobile sitemap. Your mobile Sitemap is not a mobile Sitemap, the mobile one should look like this:
                
                
                 <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0"><url><loc>http://mobile.yourdomain.com/article100.html</loc></url></urlset> 
                
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