Let's make sure that your site shows up in search results. Here you can learn how toconfigure your site for multiple devices and help search engines understand yoursite. Choose your mobile configuration 3 ways to implement your mobile websiteThere are three main techniques for implementing a website that can handle viewscreens of all types and sizes. Here's a chart comparing the three methods: ConfigurationDoes my URL stay the same?Does my HTML stay the same?Responsive Web DesignDynamic ServingSeparate URLs.: Serves the same HTML code on the same URLregardless of the users' device (for example, desktop, tablet, mobile, non-visual browser),but can render the display differently based on the screensize. Responsive design is Google's recommended design pattern.: Uses the same URL regardless of device, but generatesa different version of HTML for different device types based on what theserver knows about the user's browser.: Serves different code to each device, and on separateURLs. This configuration tries to detect the users' device, then redirects tothe appropriate page using HTTP redirects along with the Vary HTTP header.Google does not favor any particular URL format as long as the page(s) and all page assets are accessible to all.For more information on selecting a mobile site configuration (and weighing the pros and cons of each option), see.
So making sure your website shows up in mobile search is now mandatory. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Responsive web design: Serves the same HTML code on the same URL regardless of the users’ device (desktop, tablet, mobile, non-visual browser), but can render the display differently (i.e., “respond”) based on the screen size. Responsive design is Google’s recommended design pattern.
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The key points for going mobileAs we discuss later, there are different configurations you can choose tomake your site mobile-friendly. However, there are key points that you shouldtake note of regardless of which configuration you choose to set up. Signal to Google when a page is formatted for mobile (or has an equivalentpage that's formatted for mobile). This helps Google accurately serve mobilesearchers your content in search results. Keep resources crawlable. Don't use robots.txt to block search engines fromaccessing critical files on your site that help render the page (including ads).If doesn't have access to a page's resources, such as CSS,JavaScript, or images, we may not detect that it's built to display and workwell on a mobile browser. In other words, we may not detect that the page is'mobile-friendly,' and therefore not properly serve it to mobile searchers.
Avoid that frustrate mobile visitors, such asfeaturing unplayable videos (for example, Flash video as the page's significantcontent). Mobile pages that provide a can bedemoted in rankings or displayed with a warning in mobile search results.More information in Common mistakes section.Understand the difference between devicesMobile: In this document, 'mobile' or mobile devices refers to smartphones, suchas devices running Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone. Mobile browsers are similarto desktop browsers in that they can render a broad set of the HTML5specification, although their screen size is smaller and in almost all casestheir default orientation is vertical.Tablets: We consider tablets as devices in their own class. When we refer tomobile devices, we generally aren't referring to tablets. Tabletstend to have larger screens, which means that, unless you offer tablet-optimizedcontent, you can assume that users expect to see your site as it would look on adesktop browser rather than on a smartphone browser.Multimedia phones: These are phones with browsers that are able to renderpages coded to meet XHTML standards, support HTML5 Markup, JavaScript/ECMAscriptbut might not support some of the extension APIs in the HTML5 standard. Thisgenerally describes the browser in most 3G-ready phones that are not smartphones.Feature phones: On these phones, browsers lack the capability to rendernormal desktop webpages coded using standard HTML.
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Google is introducing some noticeable changes to how it displays mobile search results, meant to better highlight the source behind each link. Mobile search results display a website’s icon and name above the title of the specific page being surfaced. Until now, Google has somewhat downplayed the source of search results, displaying a website’s name in a smaller font beneath each link.The design will begin rolling out in the “next few days.” Google says the design is “coming first to mobile,” which a spokesperson clarified includes both web searches and the Google app. The design will let Google “add more action buttons and helpful previews.”With the updated design, Google’s mobile search starts to look a lot more like a news feed, filled with posts from various publishers on a specific subject. Emphasizing the source of information makes a lot of sense, particularly as concerns about fake news sources continue. Websites have complete control over their name and icon, but the change could at least help, say, a New York Times link stand out over a link from a disreputable content farm, should Google happen to surface both on the same page.Google also suggests this design change is something of a stepping stone to creating richer (and busier) search result pages.
More and more images and highlighted pieces of information have been appearing directly on the search page, and Google says this new design “allows us to add more action buttons and helpful previews.” It sounds as though search results, which are each displayed as individual cards, are going to become increasingly interactive, letting you do and see more without actually visiting another page.