Google On How To Move Your M-Dot To Responsive Before Mobile-First Index Rollout

Sep 15, 2017 - 7:41 am 7 by

Mobile3 Google 1900px

As everyone in our space is getting ready for the Google mobile-first index and Google has suggest that you should go responsive before the mobile-first index rollout, which looks like it is happening soon . With that Google has published a new blog post explaining how to migrate your m-dot to a responsive design, I have to assume because it is a concern for many webmasters right now.

In short, here is a hint from Google to go responsive because it helps ensure your mobile pages are equivalent to your desktop ages and you need to do that before Google goes live with this mobile first index.

Here is how Google suggests you do that:

(1) Get your responsive site ready

click for full size

(2) 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.

Google 301 Responsive

(2) Remove any mobile-URL specific configuration your site might have, such as conditional redirects or a vary HTTP header.

(4) As a good practice, setup rel=canonical on the responsive URLs pointing to themselves (self-referential canonicals).

Google added that if you're currently using dynamic serving and want to move to responsive design, you don't need to add or change any redirects.

So get to it!

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Search Video Recaps

 
- YouTube
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Bing Search

Microsoft Confirms Schema Helps Its LLMs (Copilot) Understand Your Content

Mar 20, 2025 - 7:51 am
Google

Google Drops Review Counts For Non-Shopping Results

Mar 20, 2025 - 7:41 am
Google Search Engine Optimization

Google: If Searchers Don't Use Your Page In Search It May Be Removed

Mar 20, 2025 - 7:31 am
Bing Search

Bing Buy Now Button Goes Directly To Checkout

Mar 20, 2025 - 7:21 am
Google Maps

Google Business Profiles Fixed The Reverification Bug

Mar 20, 2025 - 7:11 am
Bing SEO

Bing Webmaster Tools Down Has Been Down Hours

Mar 19, 2025 - 1:10 pm
Previous Story: Bing To Crawl Web For PWAs For Inclusion In Windows App Store?