{"id":24987,"date":"2017-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/how-to-move-from-m-dot-urls-to-responsive-site\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"how-to-move-from-m-dot-urls-to-responsive-site","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/how-to-move-from-m-dot-urls-to-responsive-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Thursday, September 14, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\n  With more sites moving towards responsive web design, many webmasters have questions about<br \/>\n  migrating from<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/mobile-site-and-mobile-first-indexing-best-practices\/\">separate mobile URLs<\/a>,<br \/>\n  also frequently known as &#8220;m-dot URLs&#8221;, to using<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/mobile-site-and-mobile-first-indexing-best-practices\/\">responsive web design<\/a>.<br \/>\n  Here are some recommendations on how to move from separate urls to one responsive URL in a way<br \/>\n  that gives your sites the best chance of performing well on Google&#8217;s search results.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"moving-to-responsive-sites-in-a-googlebot-friendly-way\" tabindex=\"-1\">Moving to responsive sites in a Googlebot-friendly way<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Once you have your responsive site ready, moving is something you can definitely do with just a<br \/>\n  bit of forethought. Considering your URLs stay the same for desktop version, all you have to do is<br \/>\n  to configure <code>301<\/code> redirects from the mobile URLs to the responsive web URLs.\n<\/p>\n<p>Here are the detailed steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n    Get your responsive site ready<br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-a720f4b116ad.png\" loading=\"lazy\">\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    Configure <code>301<\/code> redirects on the old mobile URLs to point to the responsive versions (the new<br \/>\n    pages). These redirects need to be done on a per-URL basis, individually from each mobile URLs<br \/>\n    to the responsive URLs.<br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-77a46470b27e.png\" loading=\"lazy\">\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    Remove any mobile-URL specific configuration your site might have, such as conditional redirects<br \/>\n    or a vary HTTP header.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    As a good practice,<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/specify-canonical\/\">setup <code>rel=canonical<\/code><\/a><br \/>\n    on the responsive URLs pointing to themselves (self-referential canonicals).\n  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n  If you&#8217;re currently using dynamic serving and want to move to responsive design, you don&#8217;t need to<br \/>\n  add or change any redirects.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"some-benefits-for-moving-to-responsive-web-design\" tabindex=\"-1\">Some benefits for moving to responsive web design<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Moving to a responsive site should make maintenance and reporting much easier for you down the<br \/>\n  road. Aside from no longer needing to manage separate URLs for all pages, it will also make it<br \/>\n  much easier to adopt practices and technologies such as hreflang for internationalization, AMP for<br \/>\n  speed, structured data for advanced search features and more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As always, if you need more help you can ask a question in our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\" class=\"external-link\">webmaster forum<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cherry-prom\/\" class=\"external-link\">Cherry Prommawin<\/a>, Webmaster Relations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 14, 2017 With more sites moving towards responsive web design, many webmasters have questions about migrating from separate mobile URLs, also frequently known as &#8220;m-dot URLs&#8221;, to using responsive web design. Here are some recommendations on how to move from separate urls to one responsive URL in a way that gives your sites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":82577,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[665],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-24987","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=24987"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=24987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}