: Responsive design websites: one or two sitemaps? Assuming one develops a website where the layout of pages depends on the device (PC, smartphone, etc...) - in other words it follows the responsive

@BetL925

My currency website supports both mobile and desktop browsers at the same URLs. It isn't responsive, it uses server side user agent detection to serve the correct version of the page.

I submit two sitemaps through webmaster tools. It appears that Google mostly ignores the mobile sitemap for me. They don't complain about it, but it doesn't report any of the pages in it are "indexed". I get mobile traffic, but the sitemap doesn't appear to be doing anything.

I leave it submitted in webmaster tools in case Google decides to do something with it in the future.

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@Radia820

For an average website that supports both rel="canonical" links for both m.domain.com and domain.com should only ever need to use 1 sitemap by using Annotation in Sitemaps.

So even if your website is responsive or supports both using different URL you should only ever need to use one sitemap (for standard sites).

Now since your question is about responsive you I'll answer it more directly, no you only need one sitemap and you don't even need to worry about using annotation since Googlebot-Mobile understands media queries once you have used the view point markup i.e <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" /> and within your CSS only screen and (max-width: 640px).

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@Holmes151

Yes you can create a mobile specific sitemap like outline here support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34648

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