Google Expects to Switch to 100% Mobile-First Indexing by September 2020
https://webmasters.googleblog.comGoogle mobile-first indexing – Google’s crawling of the web using a smartphone Googlebot is at about 70% of the web and they plan to reach 100% mobile-first indexing by September 2020. Some key points from the recommendations are
- Making sure that the content shown is the same (including text, images, videos, links), and that meta data (titles and descriptions, robots meta tags) and all structured data is the same.
- They recommend responsive web design for new websites and suggest NOT using separate mobile URLs (often called “m-dot”) because of issues and confusion we’ve seen over the years, both from search engines and users.
