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Mobile First Index: Google to Notify Sites of Possible Issues via Search Console

January 13, 2017 at 5:00 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Mobile First Index: Google to Notify Sites of Possible Issues via Search Console

In today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, John Mueller said that they plan to send notices to webmasters via Google Search Console, alerting them that they would be likely to suffer issues when the mobile first index takes affect. While those who use responsive design likely won’t have many or any issues, those with other mobile […]

SEO Weather Reporting Tools & Google Ranking Experiments

January 13, 2017 at 4:16 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

SEO Weather Reporting Tools & Google Ranking Experiments

SEO weather reports – the trackers that track a number of keywords in the search results, and report on the volatility in those searches – have become a pretty popular way for webmasters and SEOs to kind of gauge what is happening in the search results on a daily basis. The topic came up about […]

No Need to Change Canonicals from Desktop for Mobile First Indexing

January 13, 2017 at 4:01 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

No Need to Change Canonicals from Desktop for Mobile First Indexing

Just a reminder, if you are updating any canonicals, you do not need to update all desktop/mobile canonicals on your site to make the mobile version be the primary URL. We included this information in our Google Mobile First Indexing Guide, but some people are still asking whether they need to switch or not. @shaunmaharaj […]

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