Mobile sitemaps - how much value?

[NicB1]

Hi,

We have a main www website with a standard sitemap.  We also have a m. site for mobile content (the mobile site only contains our top pages and doesn't include the entire site).  If a mobile client accesses one of our www pages we redirect to the m. page.  If we don't have a m. version we keep them on the www site.

Since we already have a www sitemap, is there much value in creating a mobile site map?  The mobile site (although missing all pages) is pretty robust and contains most content people are looking for.

Will the mobile sitemap help for Mobile searches (more so than our standard sitemap)?

I'm also planning on rel canonical the m. pages to the www. pages (per other suggestios on SEOMoz)

Thanks

[generalzod]

Hey! I Cant believe that nobody has answered this...

Yes I would say that any site with a mobile version should have a seperate sitemap for it, it does count and Google likes it as it makes it easier to crawl and index for them. Just make sure that:

• Your mobile sitemap ONLY contains URLs that serve mobile content (otherwise they get ignored).

• Make sure all URLs have the  mobile:mobiletag.</mobile:mobile>

Have fun!

Dan