Google is making the first step toward mobile-first indexing, a story we reported on last month, by testing a mobile-first search index. Going forward, Google’s index will primarily be crawling the mobile version of a site’s content to learn how it should be indexed in search. This is a considerable shift away from Google’s typical indexing practices, which involves crawling the desktop versions of web pages and indexing them in both mobile and desktop search results. Google illustrates the main issues with following the status quo: ”This can cause issues when the mobile page has less content than the desktop […]
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