Over the years since announcing mobile-first indexing – Google’s crawling of the web using a smartphone Googlebot – our analysis has shown that new websites are generally ready for this method of crawling. Accordingly, we’re happy to announce that mobile-first indexing will be enabled by default for all new, previously unknown to Google Search, websites […]
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We know that Google controls most of the web traffic around the world. And it is not hidden that Google Search is the best search engine right now. Most of the websites rely on Google Search to get the most amount of traffic. For this reason, most of the websites perform SEO or Search Engine
It should come as no surprise by now that if you’re designing emails with a mobile-first ethos and aesthetic, then you’re already late to the game. Nearly 56% of emails are now opened via a mobile device, which means we’ve been living in a mobile-first world for quite some time. The overhead associated with managing
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General Manager of Perficient, Eric Enge, explained how to construct a mobile-friendly SEO site with good UX during the “Mobile First Indexing & Mobile Friendly SEO” session at SMX West. Attendees wanted to know about page speed, ranking, interstitials penalties and how SEO for the mobile-first index is different from traditional SEO. Doesn’t designing a
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PHOTO: Joshua Newton In 2016, Google introduced the concept of mobile-first indexing. According to the company, its algorithms would “use the mobile version of a site’s content to rank pages from that site, to understand structured data, and to show snippets from those pages in our results.” In 2018, after a year and a half
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Google’s John Mueller clarified that content may be still moved to mobile-first indexing despite not passing the mobile usability test. This topic came up during the January 11th Google Webmaster Central hangout. A site owner submitted a question regarding what they perceived to be conflicting information in Search Console. Search Console’s ‘mobile usability’ report shows
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Internet usage on mobile devices has been gaining on desktop computers for years. In 2018, mobile usage is expected to top 51% of all internet access. It should come as no surprise that Google has been watching these trends and has begun rolling out its response to the shift from desktops to mobile devices, namely
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During the previous year, Google issued a statement that it would implement mobile-first indexing in the coming year. Well, today, the company revealed that the method for improving mobile search results is now being used for over half of the pages shown in global search results. Up until now, the Google bots were analyzed in
Google announced Wednesday that over half of the pages shown in search results globally are from Google indexing that content using mobile-first indexing procedure. That means that it is more likely that the pages you visit from a Google search are based on how Google crawled and indexed that content based on the mobile version
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It’s been two years since we started working on “mobile-first indexing” – crawling the web with smartphone Googlebot, similar to how most users access it. We’ve seen websites across the world embrace the mobile web, making fantastic websites that work on all kinds of devices. There’s still a lot to do, but today, we’re happy
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