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Why no sitemap on a mobile site?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by LOOM, Feb 20, 2015.

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    So I was looking around sites like airbnb and tripadvisor and noticed that they don't display the sitemap they have on their desktop sites(which I presume google uses to crawl and index their sites seeing as there's no conventional menu) on their mobile site.

    Why would they do that?

    Could it be that because they use responsive sites that google will use the sitemap on the desktop version of their sites to crawl and index their site and then apply it to their mobile site seeing as its technically the same site?
     
    LOOM, Feb 20, 2015 IP
  2. Profitup

    Profitup Greenhorn

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    As Google says, Mobile Sitemap format is changing. Try to find more info here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/2370586?hl=en
     
    Profitup, Feb 20, 2015 IP
  3. ezesimon

    ezesimon Member

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    The simple amswer is that Google already has the sitemap to the pages in the desktop version. So it's not necessary to have it in the mobile section.
     
    ezesimon, Feb 20, 2015 IP
  4. turbosatan

    turbosatan Well-Known Member

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    thats based off the sitemap being the same as the mobile site. which from google update a while ago all mobile sites should reflect the main site accurately. not be a seperate thing.

    basically responsive sites might not show a sitemap link but it will still have the sitemap at /sitemap.xml anyway as it is likely to just be a responsive site using media queries to reformat the stuff on the screen
     
    turbosatan, Feb 20, 2015 IP
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    sweb Well-Known Member

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    sitemap can be hidden from your eyes as webmaster has the ability to submit many sitemaps directly via google webmaster tools.
     
    sweb, Feb 23, 2015 IP
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    Every sites have sitemap, robots for proper indexing But format are different.
     
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  7. LOOM

    LOOM Greenhorn

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    Thank you guys for all the reply's. I have a chat with someone that explained it all to me in detail.
     
    LOOM, Feb 24, 2015 IP
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    There may be a separate sitemap that you can't access as you might not know that url of that. There is no standard name for a sitemap file (unlike robots.txt) that you may know. Also if the url for the desktop and mobile version is not changing then there is no need to have a separate sitemap.
     
    webdev007, Feb 24, 2015 IP