Mobile site pages "noindex" ?

I've built a separate mobile site just for use with smartphones. When a smartphone device is detected by java script it redirects the user to the mobile site. Compared to the desktop/tablet version, the mobile site has fewer pages, less content/images and is optimized to work on a smartphone. My question relates indexing of these mobile only pages? Should I restrict the search engines from indexing these mobile only pages using or using the admin panel checkbox to "exclude from Search Results"? Any thoughts on how to treat "mobile only pages" with regards to indexing? Thanks!

Liam, Not sure what you mean "May I ask why you not looked at the BC built in stuff for this with the templates, custom pages and the system tags for this?" It's not obvious to me that there's one best approach to mobile sites in BC. Could you explain what you mean or point me in that direction? Frankly, I have a hard time keeping up with what's new in BC, what actually works and in some cases how to use it. I've recently started using Kiyuco to help expand my BC knowledge. Any other suggestions are certainly welcome. Thanks

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If your single page site has great content and good structure, google might provide same treatment as it does for various sub pages website.
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I have my website www.jorgeromero.me (I'm still a beginer so please give me opinios on what to improve, thanks)
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