8th Feb 2012, 01:43 AM | #1 |
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Is it better to do a subdomain (m.clientdomain.com) or setup a directory folder (clientdomain.com/mobile) when creating mobile sites for clients? Any advantage to doing it either way? |
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8th Feb 2012, 05:21 AM | #2 |
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Subdomain seems to be the general consensus. You use folders for different sections of a website. Subdomains are called that because they are indeed, subdomains. They are a more logical choice for storing a different version of the same website -- which is exactly what a mobile website is.
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8th Feb 2012, 07:41 AM | #3 |
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8th Feb 2012, 08:08 AM | #4 |
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I mostly use the ".m" method, although I have set up a "clientname.mobi" recently per customer request, with a redirect on their .com site. There are advantages to each....... just comes down to preference I suppose. I tend to agree with Will that it is a separate domain, so the .m or .mobi makes more sense to me, anyways.
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8th Feb 2012, 08:55 PM | #5 |
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Subdomain with the m.yoursite.com extension. I setup a directory on my site to show them a sample before I finish the site but once it's live, I subdomain that puppy!
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"OpenWeb transcoder will not modify sites with urls matching the patterns *.mobi, m.*, wp.*, mobile.*, wireless.* and pda.* and that owners of mobile sites not matching those patterns should request that their sites be excluded by posting a request to the Sprint Developer Forum " Taking that into consideration...using the m. subdomain will work just fine. | |
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9th Feb 2012, 03:13 PM | #7 |
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what if a business has two different web site and someone does a search which on shows up
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10th Feb 2012, 10:56 AM | #8 |
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A mobile detection redirection script is implanted in the HEAD Tags of the Desktop site that automatically detects that the user is visiting from a mobile device and redirects according ly. If the user is searching on a Mobile Device then Google will present the Mobile site...and if they are searching on a desktop...the desktop site will be listed.
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However, it might be worth consulting your client too of their preference. | |
11th Feb 2012, 11:29 AM | #10 |
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If you go the subdomain route (most popular) be aware that if you host these sites under the same account as in Hostgator (shared server) you can only use the "m" sub one time. Keep that in mind when building sites for clients, if the have more than one site hosted on a shared plan (HG style) then you may want to make it more unique and keep it short. I use numbers (1.website.com, 2.website.com, etc) so this way the domain itself is shown in the browser. |
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If you are using one domain and want to host a number of different clients then you are best to just go with businessname.yourwebsite.com | |
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...of course using the business name would be best. | |
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