Mobile Subdomains

I am using the Different Domain, Different Style mod. I have it to where i.mysite.com goes to the right style. But i.mysite.com/f50/ reports a 404 error. Anyone know what the problem might be? The links show up correctly but when you click on them they are just 404 errors. Any help is greatly appreciated as I have been searching the net for a solution and have come up with exactly nothing.

vBSEO is designed to run on 1 domain, including subdomains. Having multiple subdomains is duplicating your own content. We recommend you not use this modification for optimal SEO.

I don't want VBSEO to work when using certain subdomains. Basically I have a mobile site set up and want that to be not affected by the SEO. My mobile subdomains are not allowed to be spidered by google or other robots. I just need SEO to either not affect the rewriting or to work on the subdomain.

I'm going to bump this thread as it seemed to never have been answered.

If you create proper meta tags, you should be able to tell Google and others this is your mobile page and not index it. Right now I am having this same issue. I would like to run http://m.mysite.com and not have vBSEO rewrite the URLs as it has done.

I could try a device check and change the style based on this, but that isn't ideal IMO. These guys have some of the best SEO in the business:

3rd Street Grill - SOMA - San Francisco, CA
3rd Street Grill - SOMA - San Francisco, CA

Content is same, url is nearly same, metatag on mobile is what I said:

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meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"

I'd really like to get this working, anyone know a solution?

vb only supports 1 url, as set in vboptions. It is not possible to have the 2nd page load be anything but the set domain, as all urls are built from it, without re-coding half of vb.

The best way to do this is to point m.domain or domain.mobi at domain.com?styleid=MOBILEID

You can even run a JS or other detection sciprt on the .com and perform a redirect if desired.

Actually, you can run vBulletin on two subdomains. I am doing it here:

Drag Racing - 502StreetScene
Wedan Performance - PRESENTS - Brown County Chaos Street Car Shootout - 502StreetScene

Drag Racing - 502StreetScene
Wedan Performance - PRESENTS - Brown County Chaos Street Car Shootout - 502StreetScene

Forum URL in vB is set to http://www.502streetscene.net/forum in admincp

From what I can tell, the only reason I cannot achieve the above on my other site is because vBSEO.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

vb only supports 1 url, as set in vboptions. It is not possible to have the 2nd page load be anything but the set domain, as all urls are built from it, without re-coding half of vb.

The best way to do this is to point m.domain or domain.mobi at domain.com?styleid=MOBILEID

The best way to do this with the limitations of vB.

One other thing, I understand vB and vBSEO may have limitations. But please don't just blindly ignore the fact that some of the best web companies are setting up mobile experiences the way I suggested. My Yelp example is probably the best way to have a mobile site. Simply add a noindex and nofollow link for your mobile page.

vbseo adds in a base href to all pages from the vb setting. It would require massive hacking to change this, and you're on your own if you do.