: Mobile subdomain seo optimization Hi we developed a site and just released a subdomain for mobile mysite.com m.mysite.com we have different robots.txt and sitemaps for each so for a search

@Sims2060225

John's answer pretty much covers the SEO aspect of it. If you want to combine the like counts for both the mobile and non-mobile versions, then you just need to use the same like button on both pages. The same thing can be done with Google+'s +1 buttons. Though the drawback to this is that Google will only treat the +1 as really belonging to the page whose URL you use for the button, and that's the page that will receive the SEO benefit.

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@Kristi941

Google covers handling mobile versions of websites in this blog post.


For Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile, it does not matter what the URL
structure is as long as it returns exactly what a user sees too. For
example, if you redirect mobile users from example.com to
m.example.com, that will be recognized by Googlebot-Mobile and both
websites will be crawled and added to the correct index. In this case,
use a 301 redirect for both users and Googlebot-Mobile.

If you serve all types of content from example.com, i.e. serving
desktop-optimized content or mobile-optimized content from the same
URL depending on the User-agent, this will also lead to correct
crawling by Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile. This is not considered
cloaking by Google.

It is worth repeating that regardless of URL structure, you must
correctly detect the User-agent as given by your users and
Googlebot-Mobile, and serve both the same content. Don’t forget to
keep the default content, the desktop-optimized content, for when an
unknown User-agent requests it.

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