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Google Testing Mobile Friendly Tag in AdWords Ads

April 21, 2015 at 4:15 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

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adwords mobile friendly headerGoogle is testing adding a “Mobile-Friendly” tag onto the front of the description lines of Google AdWords ads.

Here is how Google is displaying AdWords ads with the “Mobile-Friendly” tag.

adwords mobile friendly 2

And some from the AdWords footer in the mobile search results.

adwords mobile friendly 2

Some advertisers weren’t concerned about whether their sites were mobile friendly or not, as their traffic was coming exclusively from AdWords and not from Google Search.   But AdWords has included mobile friendliness as part of their ads quality since 2011.  But with Google testing adding “Mobile-Friendly” tags to AdWords ads, advertisers will probably want to have a closer look at whether their sites are truly mobile friendly or not.

Here is a comparison between an ad with the test tag and without.

adwords mobile friendly compareFor AdWords advertisers, check your landing pages with Google’s mobile friendly tester here.  You can also learn more about how Google looks at mobile-friendliness in our Google Mobile Friendly Algo Guide.  Even though advertisers might not want their landing pages showing up in Google Search results, it is assumed that Google is using the same criteria to determine whether a site is mobile-friendly or not.

It is unclear if this test will go mainstream or not, but it seems to be pretty tiny as I wasn’t able to replicate it in all mobile browsers.

Added: I have been asked to show examples where it shows “mobile-friendly” along with various annotations such as sitelinks.  Here are two more screenshots.

adwords mobile friendly 5adwords mobile friendly 6Update: A Google spokesperson confirmed this is a small test they are currently running but there are currently no plans to add this to AdWords ads.

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  1. Afsheen says

    April 21, 2015 at 5:44 am

    I have checked this in chrome , but haven’t found anything like these results. I have checked for US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan search engines. Everything seems same as of now, may be it will show up later

    • Jennifer Slegg says

      April 21, 2015 at 5:58 am

      I assume it is a limited test. I only saw it on one mobile browser, not others.

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