Redirection to mobile site

[martyc]

Calling all SEO ninjas!

I'm currently developing single web pages for various clients which function as abbreviated versions of their main websites.  They are all related & under a single domain.

When a user visits these pages on a mobile device, CSS is used to display mobile friendly versions of these pages.

My clients are thrilled with these mobile versions and now want to also redirect mobile visitors from their main site (which is not mobile optimised) to these pages.

My questions are:

1. Are there any negative implications if we did this? ie. redirecting to a different domain

2. What is the best method for redirection? eg. JavaScript

3. Can this be achieved by adding a single line of code to their main site

4. Can this be done in an SEO friendly way so that the redirection acts like a backlink?

Many thanks.

[Sangeeta]

Hi Marty,

I can say that we have done that. There is a single line of code that you can add to the main website. It detects the browser and opens the mobile version of the website if accessed via mobile.Unfortunately, it does it for iPads too as it treats them as mobile devices; apart from that there are no negative implications.

I have no idea about #4 but it makes marketing sense to mention your mobile website, if any on your home page.