Been redirecting mobile for at least a year now to various places, not just a site or two but with an .htaccess file in the root of my server redirected everything (besides a few specific sites that are sent elsewhere for niche and better conversion purposes), never really noticed any substantial dips, the amount of traffic has only risen over time.
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Originally Posted by edgeprod
If you're only redirecting mobile browsers and not GoogleBot, why would it?
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So you receive the mobile traffic because of the page you're redirecting to and not the non-mobile version of your page?
Edit: I see what you mean now, you receive the traffic because the googlebot is not mobile. So there is no mobile googlebot? Hard to believe.
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Originally Posted by VenusBlogger
Does it really make sense to use those redirects?
Nowadays most people enter with smartphones, as I can see in my stats, and in smartphones, people see your sites like in a small computer... So it really makes no sense to use those redirects..
Of course im not a mobile specialist, correct me if im wrong, but when I see an adult blog in a smartphone, I see it as in a small computer, the wordpress theme is rendered the same way. Again correct me if im wrong.
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I wonder the same thing. I think at this point in time it is still better to send them to something directly made for mobile. In the future when it's more likely to convert mobile as well as the non-mobile on the same page it might not be a good idea to just redirect all this traffic somewhere.
But of course that depends on if you're trying to make money or gain readers.