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Mobile Domain Setup
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Hi,
If I want to serve a subset of pages on my mobile set from my desktop site or the content is significantly different, i.e. it is not one to one or pages are a summarised version of the desktop, should I use m.site.com or is it still better to use site.com?
Many thanks any help appreciated.
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Thanks Casey, much appreciated!
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As long as you redirect the mobile traffic properly you should be fine wherever you put it. Personally I try keeping anything I can in the root domain.
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