Google search is one of the most powerful ways that people will find you and your business. They are always changing their algorithms and this time they added a new criteria for your website called “Mobile Friendliness”.
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This means Google takes into account how your website loads and acts on mobile devices. If it’s not “Mobile Friendly” your mobile search traffic may be effected.
Here is a tool to check if your site is “Mobile Friendly” or not.
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what cover page are you using Jared??
Hey man, is there a specific reason you haven't updated to yosemite yet?
I always browse desktop sites on my smartphone because 99/100 mobile sites suck.
Great video…Great information…..
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Jared, I have a question for you. In college, i managed to get 2 pretty decent lenses.. the 24-85 and the 50mm for my d600. However, somehow after graduation im somehow even poorer than I was. Do you think it's possible to make money with only two lenses?
My site passed the "mobile friendly" compatibility.
My SmugMug site got an awesome mobile friendly rating, too. Thanks for sharing this info about google and search engines.
Mobile sites often suck. Keep the desktop version but use some CSS and have the width and other elements dynamically move and resize. Most websites that have them, often have significantly less functionality, and in sites such as tomshardware or techreport, the mobile site will have weird issues such as missing articles. I have seen the mobile site be upwards of an hour behind the desktop site in links to articles.
An example of proper mobile friendliness is reddit.com
The CSS resizes the page width to fit the mobile displays.
No special fonts are used, and no overrides are used, and page elements are not forced into specific locations thus you get no overlap when the mobile browser decides to make changes to the minimum font sizes. This also makes the UI familiar on all devices. It is designed to be bandwidth efficient from the ground up with minimal graphics.
A bad mobile site would be tomshardware.com
less content on the mobile site, and missing features such as commenting. missing graphics, lower res graphs that cannot be read.
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30 minutes is a bit misleading. It took me 14 hours to set my site up!
another great video Thank you
we have three certified assholes here.
first comment. woo! what an achievement!