{"id":680,"date":"2016-04-05T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/?p=680"},"modified":"2020-01-21T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T15:23:23","slug":"starting-in-may-google-is-boosting-the-rank-of-mobile-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/starting-in-may-google-is-boosting-the-rank-of-mobile-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting in May, Google is boosting the rank of mobile websites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is your website mobile friendly? Have you taken the free mobile-friendly test yet? There is a big rolling-out of changes\u00a0happening with the mobile search results on Google in 3 weeks time. Read what you need to know and how to check…<\/p>\n

In May last year\u00a0Google released an update where is started to include a “Mobile friendly” notice next to websites that had passed its Mobile-Friendly test. They also started experimenting with rank positions for those who catered for small screen sizes.<\/p>\n

From May this year Google\u00a0have announced<\/a> that they will start rolling out their latest update which will increase the effect on ranking for those websites that are mobile friendly.<\/p>\n

How do I know if my website will pass?<\/h2>\n

Thankfully Google have a tool for you to check your website and it’s free:<\/p>\n

Mobile-Friendly Test<\/a><\/p>\n

What you want to see is this:<\/p>\n

\"Mobile<\/p>\n

Where do these changes happen?<\/h2>\n

These changes are for mobile searches on Google. More than half of all searches on Google are now on mobile devices<\/a>\u00a0so it has been something that shouldn’t have been ignored for quite some\u00a0time.<\/p>\n

I can’t create a mobile friendly site… help!<\/h2>\n

I’ve been creating\u00a0responsive websites for the last few years. Time is running out but it’s not too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is your website mobile friendly? Have you taken the free mobile-friendly test yet? There is a big rolling-out of changes\u00a0happening with the mobile search results on Google in 3 weeks time. Read what you need to know and how to check…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[8,5,6],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-google","tag-mobile","tag-responsive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}