Mobile-first indexing best practices
After Google January 2020 core update Google announced changes which they made in mobile-first indexing. Make sure that Google-bot can access and render your mobile page content and resources.
Aymen Loukil share the details which shared by Google Webmaster
- Focus on having "same content" on Mobile VS Desktop
- Same Meta
- No interaction based lazyload
- Resources must be crawlable
- Same structured data on both versions
- URLs in Mobile structured data must point out to mobile ones
- Same Meta tags [title, description]
- High Quality images
- Persistant images URLs
- Same alt text for mobile/Desktop images
- Use supported video formats
- Don't put the video in the bottom of the page
Here are best practices for separate URLs (m dot):
- Mobile version shouldn't give an error
- No fragment URLs for Mobile
- No one for many mobile URL
- Verify both versions on Search Console
- Same robots.txt file
- Correct Canonical and Hreflang implementation
“Mobile-first indexing is separate from mobile friendliness,” John Mueller also clarified. “Even sites that don’t have a mobile version at all can be indexed fine with the mobile Googlebot.
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