We can configure Separate URLs for Mobile and desktop applications
Annotations for desktop and mobile URLs
To help Google algorithms understand separate mobile URLs, we recommend using the following annotations:
- On the desktop page, add a
rel="alternate"
tag pointing to the corresponding mobile URL. This helps Googlebot discover the location of your site's mobile pages. - On the mobile page, add a
rel="canonical"
tag pointing to the corresponding desktop URL.
google support two methods to have this annotation: in the HTML of the pages themselves and in sitemaps. For example, suppose that the desktop URL is http://example.com/page-1
and the corresponding mobile URL is http://m.example.com/page-1
. The annotations in this example would be as follows.
Annotations in the HTML
On the desktop page (http://www.example.com/page-1
), add the following annotation:
On the mobile page (http://m.example.com/page-1
), the required annotation should be:
This rel="canonical"
tag on the mobile URL pointing to the desktop page is required.
Annotations in sitemaps
Google support including the rel="alternate"
annotation for the desktop pages in sitemaps like this:
The required rel="canonical"
tag on the mobile URL should still be added to the mobile page's HTML.