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Critical Website Ranking Factors
What Is Mobile-First Indexing?
The most significant change seen by Google was a few years ago
There are several crucial website ranking factors that you must
when they announced what is known as mobile-first indexing.
address to not only get your website up to industry standards
They announced in early 2020 that about 80% of the internet
but to secure your position among the top search results and
was now entirely switched over to the new mobile-first search
increase your organic traffic.
engine.
How your website performs in terms of speed, the information THIS MEANS THAT GOOGLE NOW RANKS YOUR SITE BASED
it provides, and the overall user experience it delivers will ON YOUR MOBILE VERSION FIRST, AND DESKTOP VERSION
determine where your website will be shown in search results SECOND.
and how much traffic it will receive.
TThis is very different from the days of mobile-responsive
websites and mobile-friendly updates. Most do not understand
this fundamental difference. If your site has not been optimized
But before anything, you need to understand how for mobile-first indexing in the last 12 months, then your website
MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING IMPACTS HOW YOUR WEBSITE RANKS. is unfortunately already out of date.
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