Quote:
Originally Posted by Yo Adrian
Mobile sub domains are being treated the same as responsive design, so if you have a mobile-friendly version of your site on m. you should be fine.
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Like this man said, I got a "your site isn't mobile friendly" in the Webmaster Tool so I created a m. sub domain on Sunday, slapped up a oneclick wordpress install, and recreated 5 top pages of my 40 page site on a responsive template (startup theme) and cut and pasted a photo and some text.
On the www site I installed this mobile redirect library;
https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect
ie in the header.php I have as my frst lines;
Code:
<?php
require_once 'Mobile_Detect.php';
$detect = new Mobile_Detect;
if($detect->isMobile()){
header('Location: http://m.example.co.za', true, 301);
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html
carry on with the www site
And updated the URL to point to my relevant 4 other mobile pages.
And then fetched my 5 mobile pages as Googlebot using a smartphone user agent.
Today when I run the Googe mobile tool above the site is showing as "passed" but I've read that the WMT mobile friendly and the dev tools contradict each other.
Other big money sites I've had warnings for in November I've fixed and some high ranking zero revenue sites I've just ignored the warnings to see if they really tank.
February wasn't a great deal of warning IMHO. Lots of big (and wealthy) companies I work with had allocated their annual budgets already and just didn't have the resource or flexibility to make the changes to be 100% compliant with the WMT criteria.
Let's see how it goes
