Will ranking be affected with a mobile XML sitemap for a mobile site with canonical URLs?

Posted by Emil Rasmussen on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Emil Rasmussen
Published on 2012-06-22T05:32:57Z Indexed on 2012/06/22 9:23 UTC
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We have a site with both a desktop version and a mobile version. Most of the content are the same and both versions have the same URL, but the HTML generated is device specific.

Looking at Google's recommendations for smartphone-optimized sites, one could get the impression that the mobile xml sitemap is only for sites with different URLs.

Will ranking be affected - negatively or positively - if we add a mobile xml sitemap that effectively will be a duplicate of the desktop sitemap?

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