How Does Mobile-First Indexing Work, and How Does It Impact SEO?
Weāve been hearing a lot about mobile-first indexing lately, as the latest development in Googleās ever-continuing efforts to make the web more mobile-friendly and reflect user behavior trends. But thereās also a lot of confusion around what this means for the average business owner. Do you have to change anything? Everything? If your site is mobile-friendly, will that be good enough? IS THIS GOING TO BE ANOTHER MOBILEGEDDON?!! In this post Iāll go over the basics of what āmobile-first indexingā means, and what you may need to do about it. Iāll also answer some frequently asked questions about mobile-first indexing and what it means for our SEO efforts. What is āmobile-first indexingā? Mobile-first indexing is exactly what it sounds like. It just means that the mobile version of your website becomes the starting point for what Google includes in their index, and the baseline for how they determine rankings. If you monitor crawlbot traffic to your site, you may ...