Google's stand on mobile version of a website - Cloaking or not?

[MonkeyFace]

I don't plan to do a redirect for mobile users on my website. I rather want to serve them a differently formatted page.

What's Google's stand on it? Technically it is a form of cloaking, but it's a valid reasonable requirement. What does Google think about this practice?

[tedster]

What you are describing is a good practice. Your approach is not cloaking if you serve Googlebot-Mobile the mobile version and serve regular googlebot the standard version. You can often accomplish this formatting difference completely through CSS.

Webmaster Tools introduced a "Fetch as Googlebot Mobile" tool last year, as well as a "Fetch as Googlebot" tool - so you can double check that your server is technically correct.

[MonkeyFace]

Thanks a lot tedster.