10 Steps To Make Your Website A Google Mobile Friendly Site
According to the latest SEO updates, it has been seen that as many as 80% people use mobile for searching and 50% of these searches are carried out on the smartphones. We are also familiar that this fact may blobber many non-friendly mobile wesites. Therefore, to survive in this cut-throat competition, it is extremely important that you have a website that is compliant to Google's mobile SEO requirements. Here are 10 steps that you should follow in order to turn your website into a mobile friendly one. 1. Test whether your pages are mobile friendly or not Google has a simple tool to help you check whether your website is mobile friendly. This test will analyze a URL and report if the page has a mobile-friendly design. 2. Check your CMS specific recommendations Google has given specific recommendations for the popular CMS. You can check whether your CMS is in the list and implement the changes accordingly. 3. Check in Google Webmaster Tools for messages pertaining to mobile usability Login to your Google Webmaster Tools account. Go to your Search Traffic> Mobile Usability. Here you will also find steps on how to fix these issues. 4. Check site speed and load time Page loading time is now one of the pivotal factors when it comes to mobile optimization. Visit Google's Page Speed insights to find out what on your site is responding slowly for desktop and mobile and fix it. 5. Make sure that your website doesn't use Flash Flash based content is not mobile friendly. If you want to include animations in your website you can consider using other technologies like HTML 5. Also make sure that your website doesn't. 6. Keep a tab on your redirects Ensure that you maintain a 1:1 URL relationship if you have a mobile version of the desktop website. Check out Google guidelines for the same. 7. Make sure that you use standard fonts for the content on your site Fancy fonts might take time to load on user's mobile device. Use standard fonts for content. Also make sure that your font sizes scale within the viewport properly, and the users don't need to pinch to zoom. 8. Make sure that you haven't blocked JavaScripts, CSS or image files Your site's content would not be indexed properly if the Googlebot will not be allowed to retrieve JavaScript and CSS, so it is recommended to allow Googlebot to retrieve the same. Double check your robots.txt for issues if any. 9. Optimize your images Again, anything that takes long time to load should be avoided. So, optimize your images accordingly to avoid further difficulties. 10. Use mobile centric 404s Ensure that the pages of your site opens on both desktop and mobile so that desktop pages doesn't show an error page to mobile users while redirecting.
