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How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site

Thursday, September 14, 2017
  • 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.
  • Remove any mobile-URL specific configuration your site might have, such as conditional redirects or a vary HTTP header.
  • 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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