Mobile SEO for mobile site

[logophone]

Hey there!

I own a desktop website and just now finishe building a mobile site ( not a responsive design one) and I wish to start ranking my site on mobile serch result page.

due to the automatic redirection from desktop website to the mobile site im confused: where should link to in order to SEO my mobile site? should i link to domin.com and assume the link juice is passing on? or should i link to m.domim.com?

[AndieF]

Hi Dov,

It's a difficult one. I personally don't like the idea of separate mobile sites, you're unnecissarily competing with yourself and probably confusing users. Is it too late to go responsive?

Anyway, the way I would do this is to target "Googlebot-Mobile" and write suitable 301 redirects from desktop to mobile. Googlebot will still index your desktop site but Googlebot-Mobile will be smart and follow the 301 to the mobile site.

The following should work for an .htaccess file if both your desktop and mobile sites share the same URL structure, else you may need to manually write some 301s.

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|ipad|iphone|ipod|iemobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile" [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ / [R=301,L,NC]