Show or hide content in responsive design
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Hi everybody!
I'm trying to design the mobile version of an ecommerce with lots of filters in the menu (size, colours, material, etc.)
I'd like to know if it's better for this kind of sites to use an m.version or a complete responsive design.
I have analyzed my keywords and it's true that my website is founded in a really similiar way in both cases (desktop and mobile) so I wanted to design the whole site in responsive at first, but I'm afraid of being penalized if I hide content in the mobile version. This is why I'm thinking about making the responsive for desktop and tablets and the m. option as well, so as to hide menus and images.
What's your advice? Thanks in advance!
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Hi, it will be interesting to hear other feedback on this also, but in my view just spend time building the responsive site and making it work well for various sizes and don't spend time on the specifically mobile site.
This blog post at Distilled may help too: http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/responsive-web-design-distilledlive/
Peter
PS. Following on from my reply on this earlier, it may be helpful to you to see the video that Google's Matt Cutts published about Responsive vs Mobile sites for SEO on this today. Click the link below.
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