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		ig0rskee on July 14, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pros and Cons of Mobile SEO Well, it's pretty much a standard: cnn.com & m.cnn.com facebook.com & m.facebook.com gmail.com & m.gmail.com So definitely disagree with the notion of "fundamentally flawed" as literally every significant site is doing it at this point

onreact-com on July 14, 2009 [–]

Yeah, but do we need Gmail or Facebook crawled? No, both are private. They don't get indexed at all.

The CNN site is quite messed up. Check this:

"2 U.S. Marines killed in Afghanistan" site:cnn.com

You have duplicate content twice + the mobile version does not even contain the article when you click on the search snippet.

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