This presentation reviews what you need to know about updating your website and apps to ensure that Google can crawl and index them for ranking in mobile search results. The mobile-friendly tag is a moving target, and the mobile search result is being taken over by Answer Boxes and sponsored results. This presentation shows how to build your mobile websites and apps so that they rank in organic Google mobile search results.
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Fundamental 4/21 Changes
Desktop Crawl is for Content &
Desktop Rendering is Canonical
⢠For mDot Sites
⢠For Responsive Design &
Selective Serving
⢠In App Indexing & Deep
Linking
Mobile Crawl focuses on
Rendering Rather Than Content
⢠Need CSS & JS to
Render
⢠Rendering is about
UX
⢠Hidden Text & Links
are Devalued
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Other Recent Changes to the SERP
Featured
Answers
Aggregations
Interactions
EasytoSee
Packs
Cards
Carousels
Expansion
Information
Semantic
Natural Language
Compound
Search
Entity
Understanding
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Answer Doubles
⢠Often the top answer is from
the top ranking website, but
not always
⢠Answer Boxes tend to drive a
20% increase in traffic for the
impacted Keywords
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Android Deep Linking User Experience
Googleâs Deep Linking case studies: https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/case-studies
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Google Require Website Parity to Rank Deep Links
âGoogle will be
considering
"high quality"
apps to be a
positive ranking
factor in mobile
search.â
-Mariya Moeva (Google
Webmaster Trends Analyst,
SMX West 2015)
WebApp
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Google Require Website Parity to Rank Deep Links
âApps that use the App Indexing API will be given an additional
rankings bonus above and beyond the ranking bonus that is given
for having deep links in place.â
-Mariya Moeva (Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, SMX East 2015)
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PPC Results Taking Up More Room on Mobile
⢠Click-to-Call
⢠Star Ratings
⢠App Icons
⢠Links for Directions
⢠Ad Extensions
⢠These could be more of a threat to
SEO moving forward
Yes or No (per URL)
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Predictive Search from
Search & Click History
Social & Community Behavior
Personalization
Photos
Music
TV
Apps
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Gary â blank mobile pages
Maily â Comparison
Intterstitials
4/21 â Distraction from a group of updates that happened months before and months after
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4/21 â Distraction from a group of updates that happened months before and months after
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Tool result does not necessarily match up with what we are seeing on phones
4/21 â Distraction from a group of updates that happened months before and months after
Yes or No (per URL)
Tool result does not necessarily match up with what we are seeing on phones
4/21 â Distraction from a group of updates that happened months before and months after
Yes or No (per URL)
Tool result does not necessarily match up with what we are seeing on phones
4/21 â Distraction from a group of updates that happened months before and months after
Yes or No (per URL)
Tool result does not necessarily match up with what we are seeing on phones
4/21 â Distraction from a group of updates that happened months before and months after
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Tool result does not necessarily match up with what we are seeing on phones
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Mobile Friendliness Tool
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
Mobile Friendliness Tool
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
Mobile Friendliness Tool
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
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The result depends on interpretation. Answers and facts are scraped and usually attributed.
Extra Long Descriptions that Get a good CTR may be a Precurser to an official âAnswerâ result
Does not work for subdomains,
Looks weird with paramaters
Packs often float to the top, pushing web results below the fold
Traffic May Drop Even if You Maintain 1st Place Ranking
High correlation between rankings and exact match keywords
Only higher-than-average rated apps (avg. 3.5-4 stars min)
Deep Links between your website and your app may improve your website rankings in mobile search
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Google Now, Google Now on Tap, Google +, AndroidM - Googleâs Digitally Curated Content
Understanding Google Now
In-App Actions
News
Monetized Content
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