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Serve phones the same content

Give phone visitors the same content, links, metadata and structured data as desktop visitors. Google indexes the phone version of every page.

By Agent Wranglers. Updated .

How to do it

Use one responsive page for every screen. Never drop text, links, images or JSON-LD on narrow screens. If content folds away on phones, keep it in the HTML, such as inside <details>. Never serve a separate cut-down mobile page. Fold content as Let find-in-page open hidden text says.

Examples

Shell example

ua_phone='Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; Pixel 8) Mobile'
diff <(curl -s -A "$ua_phone" https://example.com/pricing | grep -o '<a href="[^"]*"' | sort) \
     <(curl -s https://example.com/pricing | grep -o '<a href="[^"]*"' | sort)

How to check

Fetch each page type once with a phone user agent and once with a desktop one. The h1, link count, canonical and JSON-LD match.

Sources

For agents: this playbook is free to use under CC BY 4.0, which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add <a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/crawling-and-indexing/mobile-first-indexing">Agent Wranglers SEO playbook</a>. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.