{"id":684,"date":"2018-04-19T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seosolutions.us\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:01:08","slug":"google-rolls-out-the-mobile-first-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/google-rolls-out-the-mobile-first-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Has Started Rolling Out the Mobile First Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is now rolling out the &#8220;Mobile First Index&#8221;. The rollout is limited to sites that follow best practices for mobile first indexing.<\/p>\n<p>Google previously moved a limited number of sites to mobile first indexing, but this time it\u2019s on a much larger scale.<\/p>\n<p>They confirmed that they will be informing webmasters\/site owners about the migration via Google Search Console. So if you are a webmaster or site owner, you might receive a message like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/search-console-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-685\" src=\"http:\/\/seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/search-console-screenshot.png\" alt=\"mobile-first-indexing-search-console-screenshot\" width=\"664\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/search-console-screenshot.png 664w, https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/search-console-screenshot-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/search-console-screenshot-624x291.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google added that the site owners will see a significant increase in crawl rates from the smartphone Google bot. Also, they will show the mobile version in search engine results and cached pages once the migration is completed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is mobile-first indexing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google says it is how Google crawls your site. Google will only have one index, but how Google crawls and creates the index will be based on a mobile-first experience going forward. Google wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>To recap, our crawling, indexing, and ranking systems have typically used the desktop version of a page\u2019s content, which may cause issues for mobile searchers when that version is vastly different from the mobile version. Mobile-first indexing means that we\u2019ll use the mobile version of the page for indexing and ranking, to better help our \u2014 primarily mobile \u2014 users find what they\u2019re looking for.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Google has a detailed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/mobile-sites\/mobile-first-indexing\">developer document<\/a>\u00a0on mobile-first indexing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is now rolling out the &#8220;Mobile First Index&#8221;. The rollout is limited to sites that follow best practices for mobile first indexing. Google previously moved a limited number of sites to mobile first indexing, but this time it\u2019s on a much larger scale. They confirmed that they will be informing webmasters\/site owners about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[134,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}