Keep Calm and Optimize - Mobilegeddon is here
It’s a big day Google releases another new algorithm update. Today April 21st onwards, Google will use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal – roll on "Mobilegeddon".
To check if your promotional base is ready for "Mobilegeddon". Just run a few tests yourself to ensure you website is responsive. Google’s mobile friendly test - will let you know if your website has any mobility issues.
If your website passes this test, you can get a Mobile Usability Report through Webmaster Tools, you will gain a full list of any mobile usability issues your website may have.
if Your website fails this test, following are the points to be taken care of
- Sites Need to be responsive. Above test checks for following meta viewport tag in your page
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
- Googlebot must be allowed to crawl CSS and JavaScript to pass the “mobile friendly” test. if you are using robots.txt to maintain privacy stuff, keep in mind "anything exposed to web is not secure." allow bots to access your js and css, to check media queries and other methods.
- Mobile friendliness is determined at the page level – not site wide. Make sure each and every page is properly configured on every device.
With the amount of people now using smart phone devices and tablets to browse the web and make purchases, having a site that is mobile friendly is advantage. Are you taking it ?
Principal Engineering Leader at Microsoft | Security & Compliance Products
9 年thanks for sharing... corrected some mistakes on my website.
Partner & Digital Marketing Head at Buzo
9 年Very Informative.... Every developer had a hint that something like this might be coming.... still those who aren't working according to standards ll suffer.