Mobile index`s algorithmic process

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Micah Fisher-Kirshner: Is the mobile site RWD or M Dot?
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  Alan Bleiweiss: m.
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  Micah Fisher-Kirshner: Most likely an RWD will be more SEO friendly going forward. Canonical of m. Should help on links, but the technical support of two separate sites that now need two separate SEO work (XML sitemaps, bot crawls, etc) is going to be as bad as having to handle the work involved with AMP.
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  Alan Bleiweiss: Yes, all true. However some site owners aren`t in a position to consolidate. So I am just looking for insight on impact.
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  Micah Fisher-Kirshner: Likely a lot more work to maintain the mobile site as if its the desktop. Probably an internal refocus to make sure everything started on mobile before any work goes onto desktop.
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  Jim Munro: I`ve little useful to add, Alan, but I always remember to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when attempting to interpret statements I read. One trivial thing I can offer without anything to back it up is something I noticed after implementing an m. site for a bigger than small site about a year ago. The m. site quickly ranked for it`s own set of keywords even though the text was delivered from the same database. Later, and against all advice, the client dropped the m. site on renewal of the ssl cert. The www site decreased traffic slightly and of course the m. traffic was lost. I don`t know what any of the above means other than reinforcing the belief that clients cannot be trusted to make good decisions and choices should be limited whenever possible. :)