Google: Don’t Make Your M-Dot URLs The Canonical – Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s John Mueller repeated advice from a while ago that you should not switch your m-dot URLs to be the canonical URL, even though Google is fully switched over to mobile-first indexing. He said this is just because it is how it is done, how it was done, and switching it on Google’s end would cause many large sites issues.

As a reminder, Google said this in 2017, “No changes are necessary for interlinking with separate mobile URLs (m.-dot sites). For sites using separate mobile URLs, keep the existing link rel=canonical and link rel=alternate elements between these versions.”

John repeated this saying on LinkedIn, “Since Google indexes the mobile URL instead of the desktop one, should sites with m-dot URLs switch to canonicalize to the mobile version now? Tl;dr: no, don’t change it.”

He then explained why – in short, because it was done the other way forever, changing it, would cause some really large sites a lot of issues:

It could make sense: if Google is picking the mobile…

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