Mobile-First Indexing Deadline Extended to March 2021

Mobile-first indexing has been an ongoing effort of Google for several years. For the sites that are not yet ready for mobile-first indexing, Google has mentioned some issues blocking your sites in previous blog posts. They have now added a few more issues that are worth mentioning to better prepare your sites.

• Robots meta tags on mobile version
• Lazy-loading on mobile version
• Blocking mobile assets for Google
• Make sure primary content is the same on desktop and mobile
• Image quality
• Alt attributes for images
• Different image URLs between desktop and mobile version
• Video markup
• Video and image placement – especially worth reading