Issues when switching a mobile-enabled site to responsive
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 6:31 am
We have a client site who has been using the old /mobile/ way for mobile pages in Gold.
Now with the upgrade to R11, the client is fully responsive and the mobile feature has been turned off.
However, any Google search results that click to a mobile page get forcibly redirected to the site home page. If the link is valid, but mobile is just not enabled, the shopper should get redirected to the standard product page. Certainly not the home page. That gives the shopper the impression the product doesn't exist. Who knows what Google thinks about it, but it can't be good.
Is there any way in full source code or otherwise to alter this behavior? We have thousands of mobile links in SEO and the products are perfectly valid. But the Able handler is forcing them to 301 to the home page instead of routing to the standard product page.
Our next route is to create a rewrite rule, but I'd really like to avoid that if possible.
Now with the upgrade to R11, the client is fully responsive and the mobile feature has been turned off.
However, any Google search results that click to a mobile page get forcibly redirected to the site home page. If the link is valid, but mobile is just not enabled, the shopper should get redirected to the standard product page. Certainly not the home page. That gives the shopper the impression the product doesn't exist. Who knows what Google thinks about it, but it can't be good.
Is there any way in full source code or otherwise to alter this behavior? We have thousands of mobile links in SEO and the products are perfectly valid. But the Able handler is forcing them to 301 to the home page instead of routing to the standard product page.
Our next route is to create a rewrite rule, but I'd really like to avoid that if possible.