Unique Mobile Website and Crawling/Ranking

[jebernier]

I have a main website that is not mobile friendly (www.example.com). While we are developing a new responsive site, I created a unique mobile only version of the website (m.example.com) with limited content.

I did not allow indexing by the Google Spider as I did not want the mobile site showing up in desktop search results. But now if someone searches on a mobile device and gets an internal pahe on the site, not the homepage, they go to the main site.

My question is:
If I allow indexing, will Google only show the mobile URLs on mobile devices or will they show up in desktop searches, which I don't want?

Sorry for the long question.

John

[aakk9999]

I think the mobile site should have canonical link element to the equivalent page on the main site and the main site should have rel alternate to the equivalent page on the mobile site.

[rainborick]

Google has quite a bit of good information for developing mobile sites at [developers.google.com...] that includes their suggestions for having a separate mobile site. But if you expect the responsive version of your site to be online soon, you might be best off if you continue to block your current mobile site so that you don't have to deal with de-indexing the mobile-only version, removing redirects, etc.