Tag Archives: Mobilefirst

Okay, so it’s been a few years now since Google announced the mobile-first index. Most sites have been moved over to Google’s mobile-first index and it’s no longer a “hot” topic in SEO. I found a tweet from John Mueller, Google Search Advocate, in 2021 that sums up the lack of focus on this topic the best: My guess is mobile-first indexing has been ongoing for so many years now that it’s more like a “part of life” :). @maxxeight also has a neat tool for testing at Source link

Google’s John Mueller addresses a few technical aspects of mobile-first indexing that continue to confuse site owners. Mueller says he occasionally gets questions about how to use rel-alternate and rel-canonical links on sites with separate mobile URLs. This information may be known to you, but Mueller felt it’s important enough to create a whole Twitter thread about, so I will go over what he said in case it’s useful to you. Mobile-First Indexing and Canonical URLs Mueller explains… Source link

Google announced that mobile first indexing will not be rolling out as promised. Mobile-first indexing is delayed by eight months. These are the reasons why. Mobile-first Index Rollout: When It’s Happening The announcement states that most sites today are currently set to mobile as well as all new sites having their indexing set to mobile by default. There are many sites that remain outside of mobile-first indexing. For those sites that have not yet been switched over, Google has discovered… Source link