What would be best way to transition from mobile website to responsive

[Digitics]

We have a mobile website (mobile.website.com) that mirror our desktop site (www.website.com) with +100 000 pages.

• We have an alternate tag on our desktop to our mobile site and a user agent detect that redirect mobile traffic to our mobile site
• Our mobile site is no index and has a canonical to our desktop.

Everything works pretty well, the mobile website is not index and only show up in SERP when a user make a search from a mobile.

Our main website is now responsive and we would like to kill our mobile site without compromising our traffic.

We know that a slight speed change or content change can affect our traffic, what would be the best way to do that?

• Big bang: redirect all mobile URL to desktop, remove user agent detect and remove alternate tag on desktop
• Semi Big bang: remove user agent detect and remove alternate tag on desktop and see how the traffic react before redirecting
• Progressive: remove the user agent detect and the alternate tag on some section of the website to see how the traffic react
• Other ?

Anyone has any experience with that?

Thanks and let me know if anything is not clear.

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

I would redirect all mobile URLs to their proper desktop URLs. Make sure you internal links and sitemap XML are updated to reflect the responsive site.

Question though, if your mobile site is noindexed, how are you getting any mobile traffic or appearing in search? That's interesting to me.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

[Digitics]

Thanks for your answer.

So for you it's big bang.

Google seems to use our alternate to index our mobile site and display our mobile URL in his SERP even if all our mobile pages are noindex, nofollow.

[jfaroughi]

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