: Mark-up for desktop and separate mobile version of site, can they be used cross domain? When there is a separate mobile version of a site on a different URL to the main site, Google suggests

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When there is a separate mobile version of a site on a different URL to the main site, Google suggests to use their Annotations for desktop and mobile URLs.


On the desktop page, add:

<link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)"
href="http://m.example.com/page-1" >


and on the mobile page, the required annotation should be:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/page-1" >



Can these be used cross domain?

e.g:

Desktop site: example.com
Mobile site on a different domain: example.mobile
I know this is the possibly the worst way to set up a mobile version of a site, but say in a worst case scenario, could they work?

I'm thinking most likely not, however canonical tags can be used cross domain, so in theory it might work.

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