{"id":850,"date":"2020-01-23T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2020-01-23T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:57:08","slug":"google-has-updated-its-mobile-first-indexing-developer-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/google-has-updated-its-mobile-first-indexing-developer-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has Updated its Mobile-First Indexing Developer Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 22<sup>nd<\/sup> Jan, <strong>Google<\/strong> has notified that they have made some significant updates to their <strong>developers documentation<\/strong> on <strong>mobile-first indexing<\/strong>. So, webmasters should definitely <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/mobile-sites\/mobile-first-indexing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out these updates<\/a> and follow them to make sure that their users have the best experience.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We made some significant updates to our developers documentation on mobile-first indexing (\u260e\ufe0f#\u20e31\u20e3\ud83d\udcd9?), Whether your site has been moved over already or not, it&#39;s worth checking it out \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yo4mGQZkqh\">https:\/\/t.co\/yo4mGQZkqh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlewmc\/status\/1219924331964325888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here, I\u2019m going to share the important points in brief.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Make sure that Googlebot can access and render your content<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the same meta robots tags on the mobile and desktop site.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t lazy-load primary content upon user interaction.<\/li>\n<li>Let Google crawl your resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>2. Make sure that content is the same on desktop and mobile<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure that your mobile site contains the same content as your desktop site.<\/li>\n<li>Use the same clear and meaningful headings on the mobile site as you do on the desktop site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>3. Check your structured data<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure that your mobile and desktop sites have the same structured data.<\/li>\n<li>Use correct URLs in structured data.<\/li>\n<li>If you use Data Highlighter, train it on your mobile site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>4. Put the same metadata on both versions of your site<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure that the descriptive title and meta description are equivalent across both versions of your site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>5. Check the placement of your ads<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ads can harm your mobile page ranking. So, don\u2019t let them harm your ranking by following <strong>Better Ads Standard<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>6. Check your images<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide high quality images.<\/li>\n<li>Use a supported format for images.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use URLs that change every time the page loads for images.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that the mobile site has the same alt text for images as the desktop site.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that the mobile page content quality is as good as the desktop page by using the same descriptive titles, captions, filenames, and text relevant to the images on the mobile site as you do for the desktop site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>7. Check your videos<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use URLs that change every time the page loads for your videos.<\/li>\n<li>Use a supported format for your videos and put videos in supported tags.<\/li>\n<li>Use the same video structured data on both your mobile site and desktop site.<\/li>\n<li>Place the video in an easy to find position on the page when viewed on a mobile device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional Tips for Webmasters having separate URLs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure that the error page status is the same on both the desktop and mobile sites.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that your mobile version doesn\u2019t have fragment URLs.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that the desktop versions that serve different contents have equivalent mobile versions.<\/li>\n<li>Verify both versions of your site in Search Console.<\/li>\n<li>Check hreflang links on separate URLs.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that you mobile site has enough capacity to handle a potential increase in crawl rate on the mobile version of your site.<\/li>\n<li>Verify that your robots.txt directives work as you intend for both versions of your site.<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct rel=canonical and rel=alternate link elements between your mobile and desktop versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 22nd Jan, Google has notified that they have made some significant updates to their developers documentation on mobile-first indexing. So, webmasters should definitely check out these updates and follow them to make sure that their users have the best experience. We made some significant updates to our developers documentation on mobile-first indexing (\u260e\ufe0f#\u20e31\u20e3\ud83d\udcd9?), Whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,49],"tags":[43,211,45,296,297],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google-update","category-technical-seo","tag-mobile-first-indexing","tag-mobile-friendly-website","tag-mobile-search","tag-mobile-first-indexing-developer-docs","tag-mobile-first-indexing-developer-docs-update"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google has Updated its Mobile-First Indexing Developer Docs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brief notes on important updates made by Google to its developers documentation on mobile-first indexing on 22nd Jan 2020.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/google-has-updated-its-mobile-first-indexing-developer-docs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google has Updated its Mobile-First Indexing Developer Docs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brief notes on important updates made by Google to its developers documentation on mobile-first indexing on 22nd Jan 2020.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/google-has-updated-its-mobile-first-indexing-developer-docs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Fastest Way To Know About SEO News &amp; 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