Google Answers Questions on Mobile-Friendly Ranking Algorithm

March 27th, 2015

The impact of Google’s mobile-friendly algorithm change will be larger than that of Google Panda or Google Penguin according to Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji. The planned roll out of these change stand to take place on April 21st.
With such a significant change coming we have included a video form Google that helps to answer some of the questions you may have.

Some of the helpful information you will find in this video hangout;

  • The algorithm will start rolling out on April 21st and
  • The roll out will take up to a week to complete globally.
  • The algorithm will determine either you are or you’re not mobile-friendly
  • You want to make sure your site has the mobile-friendly label in a live mobile search.
Not sure if your site is Mobile-Friendly click here we will run a test for you

Watch the Video for more information from Google

Not mobile-friendly
Page appears not mobile-friendly

  • Text too small to read
  • Links too close together
  • Mobile viewport not set
  • Content wider than screen

These are just some of the results from sites that have been tested and determined that they are not mobile-friendly.

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