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How To Check If Your Website Is Mobile Friendly For The Google Update

How To Check If Your Website Is Mobile Friendly For The Google Update

by | Mar 31, 2015 | Websites

In my recent post I highlighted the impending Google update, which will effectively penalise sites that aren’t mobile responsive.

It’s a straightforward process to check if Google thinks your site is mobile friendly.

There are 2 ways to do this:

  1. Go to Google on your smart phone. Open up the internet and search for your company name. You should come up as number 1 in the search results. Under your name and URL in the results, it should say ‘Mobile-friendly -‘ before your website’s meta description. This shows you as already labelled correctly and you shouldn’t have any issues. It’s still worth checking the second method below.(Incidentally, if you don’t come up as the number one listing when you type in your company name, or you don’t have more than 1 link for your site when you do, please get in touch and we can offer you an inexpensive solution to make sure people who do search for you, actually find you!)Here’s an image showing you what this looks like when I search for ‘Apps Together’. Notice the multiple pages and the mobile friendly tag.apps-together-mobile-friendly
  2. The second method is to use Google’s testing tool. You simply go to this link and enter your URL to get the results. This is also available in Google Webmaster Tools. Here’s the link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

It’s really important you make sure you’re not going to be affected by the update. If you have any concerns, please choose one of the options on this page.

Here’s a useful infographic from http://www.firstsiteguide.com

mobile friendly website

MAJOR Google Update – This Could Seriously Affect Your Business Revenue

by | Mar 25, 2015 | Websites

Google has announced a major update to their search algorithm which could seriously affect thousands of small business owners across Australia.

It could mean as much as a 60% or more drop in website visitors for these businesses!

Watch the short video below to learn more about the update, who it will affect and how you can prevent this loss for your business…

As you can see, this is going to have a huge impact on the exact search results which benefit so many small businesses.

Click here to learn how to check if you will be affected

Here’s what to do if you think you may be affected:-

Option 1: Order Your New Website – You can go ahead and order a responsive website from us for just $950+GST. You just pay a small deposit today and the balance is due once we have built your new site and you approve it to go live.

You can view a demo site here

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Option 2: Discuss With Our Team – If you would like one of our friendly team to contact you to discuss your requirements, or if you’re not sure if the update will affect you and you want to find out more, please fill out the short form and we’ll be in touch.

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Further reading

Here are the links mentioned in the video:

Google’s Official Announcement
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search.html

Search Engine Land Related Articles
http://searchengineland.com/google-search-algorithm-adds-mobile-friendly-factors-app-indexing-ranking-215573
http://searchengineland.com/google-sending-mobile-usability-warnings-huge-number-webmasters-213113
http://searchengineland.com/study-78-percent-local-mobile-searches-result-offline-purchases-188660