Hi,
I created a mobile version of my website homepage, however it is accessible by a different url as well (eg. homepage is now accessible by both http://www.sitename.com as well as http://www.sitename.com/home-mobile. I am concerned this will create duplicate sontent issues for SEO – is this a possibility? If it is, is it possible to use canonical URLs to point search engine to the desktop page URL only?
Hello,
Please let me know how you access the page; Is this the URL that is displayed when you access your website from mobile?
Do you use a plugin for permalinks/links?
Thank you!
Hi,
The URL displayed when accessing http://www.sitename.com from mobile is http://www.sitename.com itself. However, the address http://www.sitename.com/home-mobile (home-mobile is the name of my mobile homepage) can also be used to access the the mobile home page, in which case it shows http://www.sitename.com/home-mobile in the URL. I am concerned this might lead to duplicate content SEO issues.
I am currently not using any permalink plugin. I am only using the YOAST plugin for SEO.
Thanks
Hi BR33,
If I understood correctly, use the mobile page template and refer to its link.
In fact, when the mobile page template is used, a separate page is made from the one on the desktop, and if it is set on the mobile version, when you access that page, the page will have the desktop link, but the mobile content page template, in this way there will be no problems.
Thank you!
Hi Calin,
Can you clarify what you mean by “use the mobile page template and refer to its link”?
I am already using mobile template. It is working well for the most part – when I access the site from mobile device it shows mobile content template with desktop link. However, the mobile homepage template is also accessible via its own name link (www.sitename.com/home-mobile). It is also showing separately from the desktop homepage in my YOAST XML sitemap.
So my question is do I need to use canonical URL to prevent any potential SEO issue? And should I remove the mobile home template from the XML sitemap?
Hi,
The mobile page is a different page from the homepage, but you should have access to it only if you know the link.
You can exclude the mobile homepage from the sitemap, in this way you can be sure that there will be no problems. – https://yoast.com/help/sitemap-shows-excluded-posts-pages/
Thank you!
Thanks for the clarification!
