Mobile Sitemap for Site with Media Queries
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I'm doing SEO for a site. It uses Media Queries and the CSS to automatically resize the site for the screen size in use. I.e. the site detects the screen size of say an iPhone and the CSS knows which elements to hide for that screen size and still make it look good. This is great because it will automatically cut down the content to display nicely on small screens - obviating the need for a separate mobile site.
What kind of sitemap should be generated since the urls are for desktop and mobile use? Yoast (sweet SEO) said it should have both regular and mobile style sitemap to get both the regular and mobile bots to visit, but didn't elaborate on how that sitemap should look.
Do you have a recommendation for how exactly the sitemap should look? Should the sitemap have the urls all twice, i.e. once regular and once with the mobile indicator?
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GOT IT! cnn.com
Search for news on your phone or tablet. cnn.com is first. In fact , on my iphone I see no mobile URLs. Fox News redirects to foxnews.mobi when a mobile user clicks on foxnews.com, but the foxnews.com ranks.
I hope this shows you that even though a site might have a mobile version and therefore a mobile sitemap (we'd hope), that doesn't mean the mobile site will outrank the main site on a mobile device.
Use your regular sitemaps and call it a day.
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First of all, thank you from all SEOs and Social media people for doing this right. And since you have one URL for all users, you should not have to submit a mobile sitemap, in my opinion.
Can you tell me the site and let me show you what I mean? I am trying to find an example but failing, I'll comment again if I can find one for you.
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