Duplicated Content on Wordpress Mobile&Desktop versions- Is it bad for SEO?

[AlphaRoadside]

Hello,

I use a Wordpress theme for displaying mobile and desktop versions separately. The problem is that if you use tools like screaming frog or if you look at the code (view source), you can detect duplicated content.

But if you're browsing on your mobile you will see only the content I have created for the mobile version and the same if you're looking at the desktop version, you will only see the desktop content.
Is this creating an SEO problem? If it is, please let me know why and if it has a solution.

Thanks in advance.

[Libra_Photographic]

Hi

Because you are duplicating the site it is bad for SEO. To address this you need to add the canonical tag to the master page. I'd look at your analytics to see where the majority of your traffic comes from, either mobile or desktop and add it to that version of the page.

More info on that here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization

I hope that helps.

[Hasanovic]

You can go with what Nathan said.

However, a better long term solution  would be to use a theme that allows you to control what is displayed on mobile vs what is displayed on desktop (or any other screen sizes).

A good theme that allows you to do this should not be creating duplicate content.