Google showing mobile version of web page on desktop

[xoggoth]

Title about covers it. Search for my website and see a couple of pages listed but links are direct to the mobile version. Anyone clicking the Google link is going to the mobile page (designed for under 720px) which looks pretty carp on a desktop.

In the google page it has:

href="http://www.gatekeeperel.co.uk/mobile/guides.php?view=mobile"

That is a link provided on the website desktop page as a fallback just in case the automatic directs to the mobile page hasn't worked.

Any ideas why Google would use a link from the page rather than the page address?

Cheers

[woohoo]

Title about covers it. Search for my website and see a couple of pages listed but links are direct to the mobile version. Anyone clicking the Google link is going to the mobile page (designed for under 720px) which looks pretty carp on a desktop.

In the google page it has:

href="http://www.gatekeeperel.co.uk/mobile/guides.php?view=mobile"

That is a link provided on the website desktop page as a fallback just in case the automatic directs to the mobile page hasn't worked.

Any ideas why Google would use a link from the page rather than the page address?

Cheers

Just guessing, the mobile/guides.php is in your sitemap.xml and in the robots.txt you don't disallow that url and you said you have pages linking to that url. So I guess I should ask why would it not appear?

Don't want to be captain hindsight but why not use something like Bootstrap and just have responsive pages? Your layout looks really straightforward, probably something that would take a couple of hours.

[xoggoth]

Cheers OH! Why didn't I think of that. Doh!

Yes the Sitemap does have the URL with the ?view=mobile on it. Thought sitemap just showed the actual pages linked to rather than copying links in full with arguments. I'll check it next time I get Google to create one.

Dunno about Bootstrap. All these standard libraries might save time until summit goes wrong, then you are delving through umpteen megabytes of irrelevant code to find the problem. Prefer doing my own succinct code.

[woohoo]

Cheers OH! Why didn't I think of that. Doh!

Yes the Sitemap does have the URL with the ?view=mobile on it. Thought sitemap just showed the actual pages linked to rather than copying links in full with arguments. I'll check it next time I get Google to create one.

Dunno about Bootstrap. All these standard libraries might save time until summit goes wrong, then you are delving through umpteen megabytes of irrelevant code to find the problem. Prefer doing my own succinct code.

Fair enough about Bootstrap, just a suggestion so you don't have to maintain a mobile version of your website.

[xoggoth]

Hmmm. sitemap was generated by free sitemap generator. As far as I can tell, a sitemap should be a list of pages, not a list of every link. Probably other stuff that should not be in sitemap and and blocked by robots.txt, terms and conditions pages etc. Will need to edit it manually. Trying to improve SEO, our sales have really dropped this year.

Anyway, ta again wh!