Google`s latest Announcement – Mobile First Indexing of Webpages

Google in its blog post has announced the launch of mobile first indexing after the testing which took more than 18 months. Google  said, “Mobile-first indexing means Google will use the mobile version of a web page “for indexing and ranking, to better help our – primarily mobile – users find what they’re looking for.”

Google also said, “that it will have one index for search results, not a mobile-first index that’s separate from its main index. In other words, it will start to look to the mobile web pages to index the web, not the desktop version.”

The strategic change is due to the fact that majority of content consumption is now happening on Mobile.  While Google’s crawling, indexing, and ranking systems historically have been using the desktop version of a page’s content, the company said that they may cause problems for mobile searchers when that version varies from the mobile version.

Google in its blog post said that it will have one index for search results, rather than a mobile-first index that is separate from its main index. Google also said, “For sites that have AMP and non-AMP pages, Google will prefer to index the mobile version of the non-AMP page.”

Read the full blog post here.