Google's John Mueller: I Strongly Recommend New Sites Not Use M-Dot URLs

Oct 1, 2019 - 7:11 am 2 by

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Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he strongly recommends sites, espesially new sites, not use m-dot URLs. Google has always strongly recommended sites use responsive designs but here John is saying stay away from m-dots as a strong recommendation.

John said "Re:m-dot vs responsive/dynamic serving: I strongly recommend not using m-dot URLs if you can, especially with new sites. It makes everything so much easier."

Here are the tweets in context:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Note: This story was pre-written before the Rosh Hashanah holiday. I am currently offline for the holiday and unable to respond to comments on this site, social, media or other platforms.

 

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