Sitemap for SmartPhone site

[AdobeVAS]

Hello

I have a smartphone site (e.g.m.abc.com). To my understanding we do not need a mobile sitemap as its not a traditional mobile site. Shall I add those mobile site links in my regular www XML sitemap or not bother to add the links as we already have rel = canonical (on m.abc.com ) and rel= alternate in place (on www site) to respective pages. Please suggests a solution.

I really look forward to an answer as I haven't found the "official" answer to this question anywhere.

[zeepartner]

I suggest to add the m.abc.com Domain to a mobile Sitemap if you can do it. It's not an important requirement - particularly if you already have a normal XML sitemap and use rel=alternate. But if you can additionally create the mobile sitemap without much effort, why not.

[AdobeVAS]

Here is something that comes from this article that confuses me. http://www.seroundtable.com/mobile-sites-google-sitemaps-12709.html

Yes, with "mobile" we mean the traditional mobile phone browsers, not smart-phones (which we generally treat the same as desktop browsers given their advanced capabilities). Using special CSS/HTML templates for smart-phones would be fine and would not require submitting them via mobile Sitemap. It keeps things a bit easier if you want to focus on smart-phones, but there are still a gigantic number of more traditional phones with limited internet browsing capabilities out there :-).

Based on this we don't need Mobile sitemap for Smartphone sites. Its only needed for traditional mobile sites.