Duplicate content for desktop and mobile

plumb_pete

front end dev here. Quite often the design team I work with produces desktop and mobile designs which are quite difficult to create responsively. While it can be done, I feel like I am using an excessive amount of my time on making this work. I'm just wondering if modern search engines would score us down if I were to, for example have two footers with same content with a different html structure and only display one for mobile and one for...

Originally asked by Richie on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It is not a problem as long as They have the same URL and the total content is not vastly different Or different URLs with a canonical tag. Just in case, you should use or backend to detect if its a mobile or desktop and serve the appropriate footer, rather than having both of them in the HTML.

Full answer by Rohit Gupta: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/144121 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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