I think most of us would confess to using our smartphones as our go-to devices for web searching and browsing. Given the on-the-go nature of our lives, our mobile phones are always with us and easily accessible. For this reason, at Qseeker we understand the importance of optimizing clients’ websites for search engines across both desktop AND mobile versions. Recently, news broke that Google has started testing its mobile-first index for search engine rankings, which means Google plans to first look at the mobile version of a website and then turn to the desktop version if a mobile one does not exist.
As Barry Schwartz notes in his article Google begins mobile-first indexing, using mobile content for all search rankings on Search Engine Land, Google is currently indexing the desktop version of websites even though there are more daily mobile searches than desktop searches. According to Google, using mobile-first indexing will “make our results more useful.” Schwartz also lists some of Google’s recommendations to prepare for the upcoming change.
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