{"id":933,"date":"2016-05-12T14:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T13:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/?p=933"},"modified":"2020-01-21T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T15:23:29","slug":"googles-mobile-friendly-algorithm-boost-has-gone-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/googles-mobile-friendly-algorithm-boost-has-gone-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s mobile-friendly algorithm boost has gone live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webmasters.googleblog.com\/2016\/03\/continuing-to-make-web-more-mobile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google announced<\/a> last year that it was planning to rank mobile friendly websites higher. The roll-out has been completed and it was officially announced today&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reason they stated they were working on this was because:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Getting good, relevant answers when you search shouldn\u2019t depend on what device you\u2019re using. You should get the best answer possible, whether you\u2019re on a phone, desktop or tablet<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In March this year website owners were notified that in May 2016 they were going to fully roll out this update. Today, John Mueller officially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMu\/status\/730682483277234176\">announced<\/a>\u00a0it has released the update via\u00a0Twitter, saying, \u201c<em>The mobile changes mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/webmasters.googleblog.com\/2016\/03\/continuing-to-make-web-more-mobile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> are now fully rolled out<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMu\/status\/730682483277234176<\/p>\n<p>This is great news for the 50%+ of Google users who search Google on their small screen devices. You need to pay attention to your analytics to see how this has affected you. If your website is mobile-friendly your hits should remain the same or be better than they were. If your website isn&#8217;t mobile-friendly you are likely to see a drop in visitors as your website gets pushed down past those that are mobile ready.<\/p>\n<p>Google have <a href=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/starting-in-may-google-is-boosting-the-rank-of-mobile-websites\/\">tools to check if your website is mobile-friendly<\/a> so\u00a0if you are unsure you can quickly and easily check your website.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an existing, paying client of mine reading this blog, rest easy, your website was\u00a0mobile-friendly a long time ago. If you need help making your website mobile-friendly\u00a0I&#8217;d be happy to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced last year that it was planning to rank mobile friendly websites higher. The roll-out has been completed and it was officially announced today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}