Google Mobile First Index News from PubCon Virtual 2020 via @martinibuster

14 Oct Google Mobile First Index News from PubCon Virtual 2020 via @martinibuster

“Essentially, if you’re not aware of this, we’re now almost completely indexing the web using a smart phone Googlebot, which matches a lot more what users would actually see when they search.

And one of the things that we noticed that people are still often confused about is with regards to, like if I only have something on desktop, surely Google will still see that and it will also take into account the mobile content.

But actually, it is the case that we will only index the mobile content in the future.

So when a site is shifted over to mobile first indexing, we will drop everything that’s only on the desktop site. We will essentially ignore that.

So that includes things like comments, if you have comments enabled on a site. If you have structured data, images in certain resolutions only on desktop, they’ll be gone.

Videos, anything that you want to have indexed, it needs to be on the mobile site.

And the final deadline we’ve come up with is March 2021.”