705418 - [SEO] Reconsider /mobile/ page URLs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 724056

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Kohei Yoshino]

Firefox for Maemo is gone.
I think now is a good time to reconsider the product page URLs.

My proposal:

/mobile/                  -> /firefox/android/
/mobile/faq/              -> /firefox/android/faq/
/mobile/features/         -> /firefox/android/features/
/mobile/platforms/        -> /firefox/android/devices/
/mobile/8.0/releasenotes/ -> /firefox/android/8.0/releasenotes/
/mobile/home/             -> /firefox/iphone/
/mobile/sync/             -> /firefox/sync/

Comment 1

[John Slater]

Thanks Kohei...I agree we have some cleanup to do.

Chrissie, what do you think? I know this is something you've been working on already.

Comment 2

[mcbmoz]

(In reply to John Slater from comment #1)
> Thanks Kohei...I agree we have some cleanup to do.
> 
> Chrissie, what do you think? I know this is something you've been working on
> already.

These are very similar to the recommendations I've made to Jaclyn, Grace, and Laura M. as we update the overall site strategy.

Comment 3

[Laura Mesa [:lmesa] [:lvmesa]]

Jaclyn, thoughts?

Comment 4

[Kohei Yoshino]

After We have changed the URLs of our Mozilla Japan site, http://mozilla.jp/firefox/android/ has risen to the #2 position in the "Android browser" search results. We'll improve the content to be stably ranked #1.

http://www.google.co.jp/search?adtest=on&hl=ja&host=google.co.jp&q=Android+%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B6

Comment 5

[Kohei Yoshino]

I believe this should be resolved before the launch of the Native UI Fennec Beta.

Comment 6

[Jaclyn Fu]

Hi John - will moving Firefox for Android content from /mobile to /fx hurt our SEO?

Comment 7

[John Slater]

(In reply to Jaclyn Fu from comment #6)
> Hi John - will moving Firefox for Android content from /mobile to /fx hurt
> our SEO?

Well, I'm not an SEO expert so it'd be interesting to hear input from others on that point. But, I will note two things:

1. We'll still have lots of mobile content at /mobile, it'll just be a more general page about Mozilla's mobile efforts (featuring a large Android promo, of course) rather than one optimized only for downloads (which is what /fx is becoming).

2. Our current thought is that there will be two states of the /fx page...users will be able to toggle back and forth between mobile and desktop details. If need be, I'd guess we could assign each of those states its own URL (ex. mozilla.org/firefox/fx/mobile, mozilla.org/firefox/fx/desktop) if that would help with SEO.

Comment 8

[Mike Alexis [:malexis]]

We have this now: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/

For iterations on IA and URL structures, we can open a new bug.