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How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site

By | September 14th, 2017|Mobile, Responsive Web Design|

With more sites moving towards responsive web design, many webmasters have questions about migrating from separate mobile URLs, also frequently known as "m-dot URLs", to using responsive web design. Here are some recommendations on how to move from separate urls to one responsive URL in a way that gives your sites the best chance of performing well on Google's search results.

Moving to responsive sites in a Googlebot-friendly way

Once you have your responsive site ready, moving is something you can definitely do with just a bit of forethought. Considering your URLs stay the same for desktop version, all you have to do is to configure 301 redirects from the mobile URLs to the responsive web URLs.

Here are the detailed steps:

  1. Get your responsive site ready
  2. Configure 301 redirects on the old mobile URLs to point to the responsive versions (the new pages). These redirects need to be done on a per-URL basis, individually from each mobile URLs to the responsive URLs.
  3. Remove any mobile-URL specific configuration your site might have, such as conditional redirects or a vary HTTP header.
  4. As a good practice, setup rel=canonical on the responsive URLs pointing to themselves (self-referential canonicals).

If you're currently using dynamic serving and want to move to responsive design, you don't need to add or change any redirects.

Some benefits for moving to responsive web design

Moving to a responsive site should make maintenance and reporting much easier for you down the road. Aside from no longer needing to manage separate URLs for all pages, it will also make it much easier to adopt practices and technologies such as hreflang for internationalization, AMP for speed, structured data for advanced search features and more.

As always, if you need more help you can ask a question in our webmaster forum.

Posted by Cherry Prommawin, Webmaster Relations

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Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API

By | June 8th, 2017|Android, API, apps, Mobile|

When we launched reCAPTCHA ten years ago, we had a simple goal: enable users to visit the sites they love without worrying about spam and abuse. Over the years, reCAPTCHA has changed quite a bit. It evolved from the distorted text to street numbers and...

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Mobile Minutes: Samsung S8; Uber’s Waymo suit; WhatsApp hack; Live streaming risks

By | March 16th, 2017|Mobile|

Today in mobile marketing – Samsung's new S8 to adopt facial recognition for payments; Uber tells judge it will seek to have Waymo case go to arbitration; WhatsApp, Telegram flaws left accounts vulnerable to hackers; Gamer’s death pushes risks of live ...

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Mobile Minutes: Internet culture; Amazon automation; WhatsApp patches flaws; Twitter hack

By | March 15th, 2017|Mobile|

Today in mobile marketing – How the Internet is saving culture, not killing it; Amazon: Automation doesn't have to kill jobs; WhatsApp, Telegram patch flaws in instant messaging applications; Twitter swastika hack comes at fragile time for company.

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