Hi,
Today I received this message from Google Webmaster:
“redirecting smartphone users to the homepage of”
Google is complaining I am using the same url to any version of my website.
How can we make Google understand we use a responsive theme? Any experience anyone?
Thank you,
I have never gotten that message and we’ve been doing responsive design sites since 2011.
This is more common message when
a) you’re mixing http://www.mysite.com and mysite.com – when you should one or the other, not both (www.mysite.xyz for ecom sites with SSL, no www for all others)
b) you have a plugin still running to generate a mobile site version in addition to desktop version
c) you have a redirect of some kind in place which “senses” a mobile user and is redirecting to homepage, when no redirect is needed; this may have been added to your htaccess file from a former theme or plugin; so double check your htaccess file
Hope that helped 🙂
Hi Christopher,
a) I never used www in any place, wp settings, htaccess etc. I double checked anyways. Neither SSL. We never used it. No need.
b) We do not use mobile version plugin.
c) I will pay attention to this item, but we did not change our htaccess for a while now.
I let you know.
Thanks anyways.
Basically Google can tell your site is responsive due to the @media queries in the .css stylesheet which has different “break points” for desktop, tablet, and phones.
I did read somewhere that “some” sites were getting penalized for blocking access to your theme folder and so Google couldn’t reads style sheet, but if you see the little picture on Google PageSpeed Insights and your page looks normal, that is a non issue.
Christopher, bingo!
I will allow the theme folder on robots which is disallowed today. This is my first responsive theme and I am learning great things here.
Thank you for the input.
