It's not clear what impact defer loading references will have on search engine indexing as this is a bit of a black box.
In the mean time we can do the following things
[] Add a link to page back to the originating page
[] Make the canonical link Special:MobileCite/page/Title of Page which points to the latest revision of that page to avoid indexing multiple references pages. Update existing links to Special:MobileCite/revision/<id>
[] Allow robot crawling on that page (currently it is setup to disallow crawling)
## Background
Mobile pages are indexed by search engines and when you do a search on mobile, the result is linking to the mobile version of the site.
## How it works today
Me as a student have literature about a subject that I want to know more about. I do a a search on a popular search engine for the title of the book, one of the first results links to a Wikipedia article that has that book as a reference. What's cool about that is that I immediately gets more information about the subject, where the book is a reference.
## How it will work
With the new solution it will be an extra click for the user (from the references page back to the article). It's important to make it easy and clear for the user that these are the references for a specific article.
But what's more important is that it's unclear (at least to me) how high importance the references page will have to search engines. In the current solution the references and the article work together to get link juice = easier to find. In the new solution it could be that we make it harder for the user to find the article.