{"id":5627,"date":"2016-04-25T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T09:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2023-11-22T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:30:28","slug":"google-warns-website-owners-that-dont-have-mobile-friendly-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/google-warns-website-owners-that-dont-have-mobile-friendly-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Warns Website Owners That Don\u2019t Have Mobile-Friendly Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been always notorious for not being very transparent in how its search engine algorithms work.<\/p>\n<p>But I think that trend is fast changing.<\/p>\n<p>Google is understanding that the search world has become too dynamic and volatile for the average webmaster to keep up with. And, in a recent attempt towards to becoming this more \u201cfriendly\u201d search engine, Google has started issuing warnings to website owners that do not have mobile-friendly websites.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You might remember that recently Google introduced its mobile-friendly algorithm to encourage more websites taking the leap towards mobile-compliance. Almost 50% of Google\u2019s traffic is coming from mobile devices, and it was a very logical step from the biggest search engine in the world.<\/p>\n<p>After the announcement of Google\u2019s mobile-friendly algorithm, some of the websites that weren\u2019t perfectly optimised for mobile devices took a dive in the search engine rankings. Many websites lost their mobile search engine rankings because they weren\u2019t fully mobile-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>And although Google did quite a few things to ensure that webmasters understand what they need to do in order to be mobile-friendly, there were still some ambiguity left.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Google has made another significant step towards it.<\/p>\n<p>If you are the owner of a website that is not mobile-friendly, you would be receiving a subtle warning from Google. This warning is displayed in the search engine results, but, thankfully, only the owner of the website can see this for now.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of screenshots to clarify how it appears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">This is how the owner would see her not-so-mobile-friendly website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/improvemysearchranking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Warning-Your-Website-is-not-mobile-friendly.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5628\" src=\"https:\/\/improvemysearchranking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Warning-Your-Website-is-not-mobile-friendly.png\" alt=\"Google Warning Your Website is not mobile friendly\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">The rest of the search engine users would see the listing as they always do \u2014 without the warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/improvemysearchranking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Warning-Your-Website-is-not-mobile-friendly-this-message-can-only-be-seen-by-the-website-owners.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5629\" src=\"https:\/\/improvemysearchranking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Warning-Your-Website-is-not-mobile-friendly-this-message-can-only-be-seen-by-the-website-owners.png\" alt=\"Google Warning Your Website is not mobile friendly - this message can only be seen by the website owners\" width=\"500\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">I think this is a great little attempt to increase the mobile-friendliness of website. The owners of the websites would be able to see that they are lacking and can take the appropriate steps to rectify that issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">John Mueller from Google has also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMu\/status\/718060044689022977\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">confirmed<\/span><\/a> that it is currently an experiment. And they are hoping that this experiment would result in more mobile-friendly websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been always notorious for not being very transparent in how its search engine algorithms work. But I think that trend is fast changing. Google is understanding that the search world has become too dynamic and volatile for the average webmaster to keep up with. 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