So Google are favouring Mobile friendly sites - What if your site/s are mobile friendly already (i.e. they size up nicely and look fine on an ipad / iphone) however they are not ‘Proper’ Responsive. ?
Do google have strict guidelines ? are they looking for something particular?
My sites look fine on a small screen (obviously smaller) and size down in a neat clean way - I actually prefer this to responsive.
However I don’t think it’s quite what it seems. I’ve just uploaded http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk today so it’s mobile friendly and I did a search from mobile for the phrase "I Need Web Hosting” which brings up our site in the first position (yes, I know, which is not listed yet as mobile friendly, yet), the one’s lower down listings do have the wording mobile friendly. So there are other factors in play here and not just if your site is mobile friendly.
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On 14 May 2015, at 16:16, Steve Ainsworth email@hidden wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone know the following -
So Google are favouring Mobile friendly sites - What if your site/s are mobile friendly already (i.e. they size up nicely and look fine on an ipad / iphone) however they are not ‘Proper’ Responsive. ?
Do google have strict guidelines ? are they looking for something particular?
My sites look fine on a small screen (obviously smaller) and size down in a neat clean way - I actually prefer this to responsive.
If you’ve only just uploaded the newly responsive site then sit back and wait. And wait. And…
Remember, changes in Google’s index can take weeks to happen.
It’s also worth noting that Google has, for some time now, provided search results that are weighted by what it knows about you – your browsing history, searches, probably purchases, and so on. This means that if I search for something and you search for the exact same thing we’d be likely to get different results back.
But yes, as far as the main issue goes, it’s all just part of Google’s efforts to provide search results that are as appropriate as possible. This now includes preferring mobile-friendly sites when answering search requests made from mobile devices.
What if your site/s are mobile friendly already (i.e. they size up nicely and look fine on an ipad / iphone) however they are not ‘Proper’ Responsive. ?
An interesting question! I hope that Google will also take into account viewport settings that define device width and the minimum and maximum scale. Those can make sites perform very well indeed on smaller screens without further work – and Freeway supports this properly.
I completed a project for a client a few weeks back and he came to me saying that his current site was doing great on Google for particular search terms (page 1 in fact). I checked it myself and the site was listed on page 8 for me. Just the sheer fact that he searched on these terms pretty much every day meant that Google threw his site to the top of his search results.
I suggested he try switching on private browsing which he claimed he’s never used before.
Regards,
Tim.
On 15 May 2015, at 15:55, thatkeith wrote:
It’s also worth noting that Google has, for some time now, provided search results that are weighted by what it knows about you – your browsing history, searches, probably purchases, and so on. This means that if I search for something and you search for the exact same thing we’d be likely to get different results back.
This is what is puzzling me as i did read somewhere that “Sites that perform well with width, min/max scale” are classified as ‘Mobile Friendly’ … can’t remember what source it was thou …
What if your site/s are mobile friendly already (i.e. they size up nicely and look fine on an ipad / iphone) however they are not ‘Proper’ Responsive. ?
An interesting question! I hope that Google will also take into account viewport settings that define device width and the minimum and maximum scale. Those can make sites perform very well indeed on smaller screens without further work – and Freeway supports this properly.
I hope that Google will also take into account viewport settings that define device width and the minimum and maximum scale. Those can make sites perform very well indeed on smaller screens without further work – and Freeway supports this properly.
I hope so. My viewport is . The pages look OK as is on tablets and on smartphones in landscape mode.
So far I have escaped the Google mobile algorithm. Their message to me in Webmaster Tools defines all my pages as not mobile friendly. But now 24 days into the mobile algorithm, I’ve seen only a very slight drop in mobile search traffic. I think I can live with that rather than a page-by-page conversion of ~330 pages from nonresponsive to responsive.
