The Mobile Version of your Website has ALWAYS Been Important. Now even more so.

Has it ever happened to you, you were looking for a business on the go and found their website only to find that it's impossible to navigate? Maybe you thought, I will look at this later and forgot about it, or maybe you just gave up on looking altogether. It is no secret that mobile web traffic has been on the rise for years now. As almost the entire planets population is now walking around with tiny computers in their pockets your website better be optimized for mobile.

It has been critical from a user-experience standpoint for a while now that your website looks good and is easy to navigate on mobile but it is becoming even more crucial now that Google is pushing their "Mobile-First Indexing". If your site isn't optimized for mobile you may lose some ranking.

Google begins rolling out mobile-first indexing to more sites

Sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing will be migrating over now, and Google will send notifications via Search Console.

Google has announced that it has begun the process of rolling out the mobile-first indexing to more sites. This rollout is only for sites that “follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing,” Google said.

This is the first time Google has confirmed it is moving a large number of sites to this mobile-first indexing process. Google did tell us last October that a limited number of sites had been moved over. But this Google announcement makes it sound like the process of mobile-first indexing on a larger scale has already begun.

Google did say it will notify webmasters/site owners that their sites are migrated to the mobile-first indexing process via messages in the Google Search Console. Here is a screen shot of a notification:

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