{"id":17002,"date":"2020-03-22T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/?p=11859"},"modified":"2021-12-08T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:11:50","slug":"google-mobile-first-indexing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/google-mobile-first-indexing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google mobile-first indexing to be applied to all websites within 6-12 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in November 2016, Google <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/webmasters.googleblog.com\/2016\/11\/mobile-first-indexing.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">introduced mobile-first indexing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. As per this significant change, Google started using the mobile version of a website\u2019s content to rank pages from that site, display snippets in the SERPs, and understand structured data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In simpler words, mobile-indexing means Google crawls your site from the perspective of a mobile browser and uses that mobile version for indexing and ranking the site in the SERPs.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This step by Google was taken keeping in view the growing importance and influence of mobile traffic and mobile devices. By December 2018, 50 percent of all websites on the web in the Google search results pages were from mobile-first indexing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, Google is planning the mobile-first indexing to be applied to all websites within the next 6 to 12 months. Webmasters may have received notices from Google about this via Google Search Console.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/improvemysearchranking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pasted-image-0-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11861\" src=\"https:\/\/improvemysearchranking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pasted-image-0-1.png\" alt=\"pasted image 0 (1)\" width=\"621\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This message clearly implies that Google is becoming more proactive when it comes to fixing mobile-first indexing issues. Notifying website owners about potential issues and giving them a timeline for applying mobile-first indexing to all websites within the next six to twelve months is a bold move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the potential mobile-first indexing issues may include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video issues<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Page quality issue<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missing image<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have received this notice, you should actively take steps to resolve these issues as soon as possible. Google is serious about mobile-first indexing. If you don\u2019t resolve the problems on your site, that would likely have a negative effect on your website\u2019s rankings in the SERPs and the amount of organic traffic you receive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are plenty of suggestions and mobile-first indexing best practices that you can follow to make sure everything is in order. Here are a few of them:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure Google can crawl your resources. Don\u2019t abuse the disallow directive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use the same meta robot tags on mobile and desktop sites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure the content is the same on both mobile and desktop versions of your site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure both versions also have the same structured data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meta metadata on both versions of the site should also be the same.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterads.org\/standards\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better Ads Standard best practices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so the placement of ads don\u2019t affect the search rankings.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more best practices, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/mobile-sites\/mobile-first-indexing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November 2016, Google introduced mobile-first indexing. 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