magicsurfbus
Free Member
On a recent visit to my web hosting provider's site, a message popped up that may be of interest to those of you with sites that generate income (or user interest).
Basically it would appear that Google are about to change the relevance algorithm in their search engine to acknowledge that around 50% of all searches are conducted on small-screen portable devices like tablets and phones.
Their search engine will now consider how mobile-friendly your site is, and rank you accordingly. Issues like ease of navigation, font size, image size and simplicity of page structure will have more of an influence on search rankings than before.
There are various responses to adopt - perversely one of them is to restructure your website in the simpler (dare I say retro) hand-coded HTML design style we all know and love from the late 90s. No tables or complications - just simple paragraphs that expand or contract widthways for comfort.
There are other ways of course.
Most importantly, if your site is designed and maintained by a third party you might want to ask them what they're planning to do about all this.
Basically it would appear that Google are about to change the relevance algorithm in their search engine to acknowledge that around 50% of all searches are conducted on small-screen portable devices like tablets and phones.
Their search engine will now consider how mobile-friendly your site is, and rank you accordingly. Issues like ease of navigation, font size, image size and simplicity of page structure will have more of an influence on search rankings than before.
There are various responses to adopt - perversely one of them is to restructure your website in the simpler (dare I say retro) hand-coded HTML design style we all know and love from the late 90s. No tables or complications - just simple paragraphs that expand or contract widthways for comfort.
There are other ways of course.
Most importantly, if your site is designed and maintained by a third party you might want to ask them what they're planning to do about all this.