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Alternate Mobile Tag

by M Asif Rahman

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Description

Mobile is important, now about 40% of Google Search coming from mobile device. Google is very serious about Mobile now.

Starting April 21, 2015 Google Search will be expanding its use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal.

Google described what you need to for your website. If your website has a separate m.domain.com type site this plugin will take care of Google’s recommendation, described here.

This is very simple plugin without any setting or configuartion. It assumes your desktop and mobile site url is same just mobile site is on a subdomain “m”, it adds the following tags

<link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="http://m.example.com/page-1" >

<link rel="alternate" media="handheld" href="http://m.example.com/page-1" >

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Modern Way:

  1. Go to the WordPress Dashboard “Add New Plugin” section.
  2. Search For “Alternate Mobile Tag”.
  3. Install, then Activate it.

Old Way:

  1. Upload the alternate-mobile-tag folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

You are good to go!

  1. Example Mobile-Friendly result in Google Search

    Example Mobile-Friendly result in Google Search

Does it need any theme customization or anything?

No, just activate the plugin you will see the alternate link tag in HEAD section.

How can I get Support?

Use plugin support button in WordPress.org extended listing.

overall fine

By lukemclachlan on September 3, 2016

it needs some tweeking. for example it adds a <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="http://m.yourdomain.com" > tag on the desktop site but you also need to add a canonical link to the associated mobile site, which this doesn't suggest. a little tweeking will get this done however.

In installing this theme I also saw how many redundant canonical links there are in the wordpress header, quite amazing. I got rid of these by adding remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical'); just before wp_head();

Good job guys with this plugin!

By Alex Toma (alextoma) on September 3, 2016

Really need this plugin on mobile sites.

1.1 – 2015-04-21

  • Initial release
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