: Does mobile site need SEO while desktop site already does it? The URLs of desktop site and mobile site are separate. We have already done the SEO for desktop site and it works great. My question
The URLs of desktop site and mobile site are separate. We have already done the SEO for desktop site and it works great. My question is, in this situation, do we need do these SEO improvement on mobile site as well?
Let's say we have two sites
www.example.com (Desktop site) m.example.com (Mobile site)
We followed Google's direction as below
Annotations for desktop and mobile URLs
On the desktop page, we have an alternate link to equivalent mobile page, e.g.
<link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="http://m.example.com/show_product.php?item=123" />
And on the mobile page, we have a canonical link to equivalent desktop page, e.g.
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/products/product-name-123">
HTTP redirects
We use 302 to redirect our visitors to the mobile site if they are mobile devices.
As we finished these two steps, our desktop site is mobile friendly. Our company's web pages in Google mobile search result is showing 'Mobile-Friendly'. It seems both Mobile pages and Desktop pages are sharing same ranking.
Do we still need to do SEO for our mobile site? Such as
Sitemap
Keywords and description
Clean and semantic URLs
Structured data
I just found this link developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/faq
I have a separate mobile website on m.example.com, while my desktop site is at example.com. What should I do with mobile pages on m.example.com that don’t have an equivalent desktop page on example.com? It’s fine to have a mobile-only page without a desktop equivalent (just make sure these pages don’t include a rel="canonical" to a non-corresponding desktop version). Please be aware that mobile-only pages will need to build a reputation on their own (i.e., contain unique content, be well-linked from other pages on your site or the web) because they will not receive shared indexing signals from an existing desktop version of the page.
Does that mean, if a mobile page has a desktop equivalent, it will share reputation from existing desktop version? So we do not need do SEO for this mobile page?
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You should check the mobile and desktop seo status through page insights here
developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
There are a few different answers to your question so I'm going to answer it assuming 2 things are true:
You're talking about non-visible SEO (i.e. description tags, open graph tags, Twitter card tags, etc.)
The content on your mobile page is not drastically different from the content on your desktop page.
The answer is: yes, but not the same and not as much.
Let's say that we want to duplicate the SEO of a responsive page with these 9 tags:
2 canonical tags (1 generic, 1 open graph)
2 title tags (1 open graph, 1 Twitter card)
3 description tags (1 generic, 1 open graph, 1 Twitter card)
2 image tags (1 open graph, 1 Twitter card)
To do that, we need to do the following:
For the desktop page:
Add a rel="alternate" tag to the desktop page that points to the mobile page.
For the mobile page:
Add 2 canonical tags (1 generic, 1 open graph) that point to the corresponding desktop page.
Off course, the mobile site needs SEO it depends on upon the design functionality. Same like the desktop SEO performed you have to perform mobile SEO.
If you're using like m.domain Dotcom or domain Dotcom/mobile then it acts as an different website and you need to perform the mobile website optimisation separately.
The answer really depends on the design paradigm used.
If your desktop site and mobile site are two completely different sites/pages
rather then one adaptive or responsive site which is just served across two domains and mobile version is not optimized then the answer is yes. You need to optimize them both.
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