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Hey Melissa, Many large websites choose to create separate mobile sites rather than using responsive design because they don't want to change the main version of the site (often because they've built a mobile website team that doesn't have any say in the activities of the primary website team). Don't use that fact to shy away from responsive design. I generally recommend responsive. There are very few things that responsive designs can't do. Namely, you can't have different content on your mobile site than you do on your desktop site. Do you want your mobile site to be a mini version of your desktop site? Then you can probably make it responsive. You can definitely create a responsively designed site that allows you to search for properties easily. Hope this helps! Kristina

Hi Melissa, To avoid your Mobile URLs to get indexed on the desktop results you need to: Add rel=canonical annotations in each Mobile URL pointing to their desktop URL versions Add rel=alternate annotations in each Desktop URL pointing to their mobile URL versions As Google specifies here and you can see in this graphic. Additionally, you can also see in those Google recommendations how you need to set 301 redirects to refer between your mobile and desktop URLs according to the user agent (mobile or desktop) used, as you can see in this other graphic too. If you look to optimize more your site towards Mobile SEO, you can also take a look at this Moz post I wrote some months ago. Thanks!

Hi Melissa, Internal link anchor text DOES has some effect.  It's not huge, and not as important as the page title, by a long shot.  But what you're doing would be very, very common and really not a problem. Michael.