[Pro] Mobile Redirect - Google Error Question

Hi all. Just finished up on our new site (with thanks to Caleb and his brilliant Backdraft) and Freeway Pro7 in time for Google’s ‘be responsive or else’ deadline.

I have a question. Webmaster Tools under Site Errors is reporting a problem with the URLs:

mobile/
m/

The site is on a standard www domain and responsive through breakpoints and coding.

My question is do I leave those alone or do something about the errors?

Any ideas?

Many thanks, Paul


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If your site is responsive there is no requirement for you to host it on a mobile specific subdomain.

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Thanks David

I thought as much. Just ignore Google’s note on the mobile/ and m/ or should I redirect them to the homepage?

Responsive = 101 new questions!

Cheers, Paul


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Are you saying that the old mobile friendly pages were hosted in subdomains m and mobile.

If so then provided that you have kept the page file names the same then a 301 redirect in the subdomain back to the main domain should be sufficient.

Have you deleted the subdomains and purged your doc of links to them?

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Responsive sites generally have only one URL per page (if you think of a page as a unique collection of information). If you use the same filenames in the existing mobile site as your normal (and soon to be responsive) then you can just use a blanket redirect from your mobile subdomain back to the base domain.

Walter

On Apr 23, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Paul Brown email@hidden wrote:

Thanks David

I thought as much. Just ignore Google’s note on the mobile/ and m/ or should I redirect them to the homepage?

Responsive = 101 new questions!

Cheers, Paul


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Hi

I don’t have any sub domains or alternative mobile versions of the site. I noticed the ‘errors’ in Google’s Webmaster Tools saying that there were broken links to the urls mobile/ and m/ which don’t actually exist at all.

That’s why I was thinking perhaps adding something in the htaccess file to point both to the usual homepage.

Or I could just ignore those errors. Not seen them before as I think it’s a new feature in Webmaster Tools.

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there were broken links to the urls mobile/ and m/ which don’t actually exist at all.

Go through your FW doc and use the Edit>URLs feature to double check that there aren’t any strange links in there.

And make sure that there aren’t any old files left on the server.

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