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<\/p>\nAccording to these statistics, you can expect a big change in your website traffic if you focus more on the mobile version of your website in addition to the desktop version. The immediate impact of the rise of website traffic on mobile phones falls on the SEO rankings of your website.<\/p>\n
Google made an announcement regarding their pre-planned change of SEO indexing on the basis of the searches on the mobile phones. This statement astonished most of the website publishers, SEOs and developers worldwide. They were surprised about what is the impact of the Google\u2019s new decision on their website rankings.<\/p>\n
Google WebMaster\u2019s blog, stated that though the search index will be as usual, they are planning to design algorithms to rank the websites based on the content of their mobile version<\/a>. They use the mobile phone version of the websites to understand the structured data of the website and display the snippets on the pages in the search results.<\/p>\n This decision of Google will bring massive changes in your website rankings. These changes need preparation to understand the SEO strategy based on mobile indexing. The preparation for mobile indexing changes makes you precede your competitors in a progressive manner. Here are some steps to help you out for a better understanding about mobile-first indexing. For this, you have to have a basic knowledge about mobile-first indexing.<\/p>\n About Mobile-first indexing<\/strong><\/p>\n Mobile-first indexing means, Google decides the rankings of your websites based on your mobile phone version of your website. For example, if you type a query, you will get a number of search engine results. Google used to rank the results based on desktop searches. But to adopt the changes according to the rise in mobile internet usage, Google started ranking the websites based on mobile internet users. The requirements for ranking a website on desktop and mobile phone differ in various aspects. To adopt the changing requirements of the users and massive growth in mobile website traffic, Google decided to change the mobile version of a website the fundamental factor to rank a website.<\/p>\n Mobile-first indexing does not mean Google ignores the needs of desktop users. Google wants to cater the needs of the users regardless of the device they use. The number of mobile internet users crossed the number of desktop users worldwide in the recent past. Mobile internet usage does not close all its doors for desktop users. Improving mobile-friendly features of a website makes a good opportunity for the website owners to develop a wider range of the market. 78 percent of people said that they found new means of business they never knew after searching for some queries using mobile phones. This does not mean that desktop searches do not impact the SEO of your website. Google just wants to change your perception in developing your website rankings.<\/p>\n For example, if the buttons of your website are smaller that is not legible in the mobile phone version, it may annoy the audience. This will impact your website rankings. You need not change the strategies of your business and SEO but have to develop a balanced outlook towards mobile and desktop versions of your website. But you should take care that you optimize your website on mobile phones before Google changes the strategies for website rankings.<\/p>\n Google did not give any specific date for changing their website ranking strategies but understanding mobile-first indexing at the earliest provides you the opportunity to top the search engine rankings.\u00a0 A representative of Google said that they have to test the possibilities of problems in mobile \u2013first indexing before implementing it on a whole. A press release during SMX conference in March 2017 gives a clear idea about the moves taken by Google to improve their action plan based on user satisfaction. Gary Mulleus gave a clarification about the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n The only measure you can take to avoid falling prey to mobile first indexing by Google is to prepare for the changes.<\/p>\n Test your mobile website<\/strong><\/p>\n To enhance your website rankings, you have to provide the user the best browsing experience you can. For this, you have to test the mobile-friendly qualities of your website. Thanks to Google, this is an easy process. To resolve these issues, you have to optimize the content of the website keeping the needs of mobile internet users in mind. If you have optimized your website content perfectly, you have no need to worry about your website rankings. For maximum user satisfaction, you have to take care of the following aspects.<\/p>\n Check whether you can navigate through the content of your website easily on your mobile phone.<\/p>\n Check the loading speed of your website and the time taken to navigate for each page. Check for loading time taken by each page. \u00a0Your pages should load within 3 seconds or less. If it is high, try to fix it. You can take the help of GT Metrix<\/a> to know the factors that make the loading of your website slower. This is just like Google mobile-friendly test that makes you know the website rankings on the basis of loading speed. You have to simply enter the URL of your website to check the rankings of your website on account of loading time.<\/p>\n Mobile versions seem low-quality versions for desktop versions of a website in many cases.<\/p>\n If mobile user experience of your website is frustrating, it may be perilous for your website SEO.<\/p>\n Get rid of hover elements that impact your website rankings. Hover elements may have a negative impact on the user experience. You cannot control the hover elements on mobile phones. So, remove them.<\/p>\n Keep on testing your website on real devices by checking each and every page. Keep an eye on loading time of each page and defects in navigation. You can use free testing guide for your mobile version of the website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Avoid content that supports only Adobe flash player. Go for JAVA or HTML5. The reason is, some mobile phones do not support Adobe flash player.<\/p>\n Avoid pop-ups on your mobile as they may annoy the users.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10.Avoid use of big graphics<\/strong><\/p>\n Translation of big graphics become difficult and may take a long time to load. This may frustrate the users. So, avoid the use of big graphics and images to make your website more mobile-friendly. You can go through this tutorial<\/a> for more guidelines.<\/p>\n The optimization of your website depends on how mobile friendly your website is in the past. The rankings of your website depend on how responsive your website is on the mobile phone. If your site is more responsive, you need to make small changes to optimize it.<\/p>\n You need to make the following changes in your website content if you need to optimize it dynamically on the basis of needs of the mobile users.<\/p>\n Check the content<\/strong><\/p>\n Check the mobile-friendly qualities of your website content. You can reach a top place in the rankings with the help of high-quality content. You have to recheck the content, images, and videos before making it available to the viewers.<\/p>\n Only a website\u2019s response time can\u2019t enhance the rankings but plays a key part in it.<\/p>\n The factors you have to review to check your website content are<\/p>\n A decrease of HTTP requests and images enhances the speed of your website response and reduces loading time.<\/p>\n Impact of metadata and social metadata<\/strong><\/p>\n Mobile version has space limitations. So make sure that your metadata structures are short in length. They need not be exactly of the same length to that of desktop versions.<\/p>\n Coming to social metadata,\u00a0 a basic review of the following factors is the minimum requirement.<\/p>\n Optimized back-end<\/strong><\/p>\n To prepare your website for mobile-first indexing, you can use browser caching. You should compress the data and unnecessary backlinks<\/a> or redirection links.<\/p>\n Use of structured data<\/strong><\/p>\n Use of detailed structured data helps you out in enhancing the website traffic. Check whether your website supports structured markup. You can use this Google tool<\/a> for this. You can enter URL of your website in this link and check for errors or warnings. Unnecessary links may impact your website rankings. For guidance, check this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Test](\"https:\/\/www.seoeaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-19-2-1024x449.png\")
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Some may say the impact of AMP on mobile version is void and some may say it plays a key role. Coming to the mobile version, it has an impact on user experience. If you use WordPress plugin or mobile plugin for your website, AMP has some significance in this regard. You can use the