With Google’s Page Speed Update, you won’t have to worry about it impacting how Google indexes your mobile or desktop content.  It will affect only how the mobile pages are ranked in the Google mobile search results.Keep in mind that indexing and rankings are two different things, as Google explains in the How Search Works portal. There […]

According to Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes, the mobile-first index has started to slowly roll out, at least for a “few sites,” he said to an audience during the SMX East conference in New York City. Right now, it’s unclear how many sites of been switched over to the mobile-first indexing process.  When asked to clarify what he […]

Back in November of last year, Google launched their mobile-first index experiment and wanted to try testing it enough before launching it in the near future.  But, apparently it has proven to be more of a challenge for Google than they though, as it may not even launch this year. On April 5th at Next10x Conference in Boston, Gary […]

It’s been confirmed by Google that they have temporarily disabled the not mobile friendly label in the mobile results due to a bug.  According to John Mueller, he said that Google has turned “the label off for now” but it “should be ok soon.” This confirmation has come in response to Google mislabeling pages as not mobile friendly over […]

Google has begun slowly rolling out the mobile-first index to a small subset of users. The folks at Search Engine Land has published a large list of FAQs around the mobile-first index. But one interesting tidbit is that by default, Google isn’t going to use the AMP version of your page for the mobile index, even […]

On the morning of August 31, the mobile-friendly labels that populated Google’s mobile search results have officially been removed.  We first got the news last week from Google that they were going to drop the label, but it’s taken some time for the label to go away. Take heart in known that the mobile-friendly label removal doesn’t mean that mobile-friendly […]

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During the Search Marketing Summit today (June 1) Google’s Gary Illyes has said that Google will be updating the page speed ranking factor to look specifically at the page speed of your mobile pages when it comes to the mobile-friendly algorithm. Jennifer Slegg wrote a report saying Gary Illyes mentioned this update is months away from happening, and […]

Google has announced the launch of their new mobile-friendly testing tool at search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly. It seems that this news isn’t exactly new, as the coming the tool was reported on the other week. The new tool has goon through some changes, looking “cleaner, more spacious and faster” than the previous tool, which was launched by Google in November 2014. Here’s […]

The second version of Google’s mobile-friendly update has fully rolled out today.  John Mueller, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, announced the news this morning on Twitter.  He said “The mobile changes mentioned here are now fully rolled out.” This new version of the mobile-friendly update is technically supposed to “increase the effect of the [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” […]