Mobile Search Impact

[AussieDave]

Hi,

I'm still trying to get a definative answer to this question. Maybe you can help

If a site is not mobile compatible, are ALL its Google SERPS penalised or just those for mobile searches?

 

[RyanWeb]

I have read a few places that it would only affect the mobile search results, the desktop results will stay the same as before the mobile update.

 

[cassaon888]

Hi,

I'm still trying to get a definative answer to this question. Maybe you can help

If a site is not mobile compatible, are ALL its Google SERPS penalised or just those for mobile searches?

A lot of folk are still in two minds about this. Google said that if your site's content is good and it's not mobile friendly the impact will not be as severe. http://searchengineland.com/mobilegeddon-beginning-not-ending-220512

On the other hand if most of your traffic is coming from mobile you might get penalised. Have a look at your GA mobile traffic.

Hope this answers your question.

 

[falseadoom]

From what I have seen is some non mobile friendly did drop a couple positions being not mobile friendly but nothing major. I also see non mobile friendly sites still ranking page 1 on mobile devices.

 

[RyanWeb]

I still haven't seen any huge changes. At least not the huge changes everyone was talking about..

 

[CaseyM]

I thought it was all so this thread is giving me a bit of hope

 

[slotplayer]

I haven't noticed anything other than a recent Google crawl.

 

[TheGooner]

It is only meant to affect search results from mobile phones.

Tablets, laptops and desktops are perfectly capable of rendering screens 1000+ pixels wide in legible fashion so a fixed width layout of that size is acceptable and will not be penalized in standard search results.

 

[edgarf76]

There has been a bigger shakeup for pages 2 and on. The sites I am ranking on the first page with have not shown the same volatility as others where I may have gone up a page or down a page for some keywords. The last few days there have been some bigger changes when I search on my Android phone but I find that my Apple Ipad shows different results than a deskop/laptop. I think that this is just the beginning of this update and most likely google will not be transparent.

 

[AussieDave]

most likely google will not be transparent.

I'm a firm believer, based on active sites (I own) in different topics, that the ranking process used by the google alog, is dynamic and not static.

EG - Lets take legitimate (bona fide) mainstream seo companies.
I'm yet to see any of these experts, hold a proven track record, when it comes to our industry. However they succeed in maintaining solid results, with mainstream sites.

I've got a site which has held page 1 rankings, (for a highly competitve keyword 90Mil+ results), which fluctuates between spot # 2 & 3 - it's done so for the past 8 years. So... I replicate an identical seo practice over to my casino portals and what happens? Well... it fails to work. (for the record it's not blackhat).

I've seen this happen over and over again. So as far as I'm concerned, while Cutts and other mainstream seo sites et al, seem to have their finger on the pulse when it comes to non-gambling sites, our industry is being ranked by a totally divergent set of Google alogs. Just some food for thought.

 

[RyanWeb]

It is only meant to affect search results from mobile phones.

Tablets, laptops and desktops are perfectly capable of rendering screens 1000+ pixels wide in legible fashion so a fixed width layout of that size is acceptable and will not be penalized in standard search results.

I find it funny Google does this update now.. When mobile phones are getting bigger and mostly able to render non-mobile friendly pages increasingly well.

 

[AussieDave]

I find it funny Google does this update now.

Mate, anything Google does I find "funny" because 9 times outa 10, there always seems to be, a hidden agenda behind it

 

[AussieDave]

G+ is a great example.
It was supposed to ensure the Author and Publisher were acredited with the original content. If the aforementioned linked G+ up to their site(s) in the correct manner.

Did it stop people scraping content and out ranking the orginal copyright holder? No.

The project is now defunct. So what was the real purpose behind G+? I have my theories.

 

[Frank]

There has been a bigger shakeup for pages 2 and on. The sites I am ranking on the first page with have not shown the same volatility as others where I may have gone up a page or down a page for some keywords. The last few days there have been some bigger changes when I search on my Android phone but I find that my Apple Ipad shows different results than a deskop/laptop. I think that this is just the beginning of this update and most likely google will not be transparent.

There has been a "Phantom update" or tweak http://www.cnbc.com/id/102669423 I got hit pretty hard for the money pages though my game articles ranked fine, I know exactly what your problem is so PM me and will give you some tips that should work, took a few days to get back what I lost.. and now am up more notches than before.. regards to mobile in this niche I have not seen any change though I have always had a large portion of mobile traffic anyhow "70%" even still, int he top 20 results around 50% are still non mobi friendly including quite a few top 5 positions for some very lucartive keywords

 

[slotplayer]

Mate, anything Google does I find "funny" because 9 times outa 10, there always seems to be, a hidden agenda behind it

The agenda is always ad revenue.

 

[slotplayer]

One of my retail sites moved from page 2 to page 5 since yesterday. That's never happened before. Hopefully it will recover.

 

[RyanWeb]

The agenda is always ad revenue.

I would agree.. But what company doesn't make 99% of its choices based on profits. Its our job to figure out how to work with it.

 

[AussieDave]

I would agree.. But what company doesn't make 99% of its choices based on profits.

Yes BUT unlike most companies where consumers pay for a service etc and the said company makes this clear to people, Google doesn't. Instead it dresses up mutton to look like lamb.

Lets take the hacked pages as another example...

If the Google alog is as advanced as what Cutts claims, then surely the team could tweak it to indentify these hacked sites and the injected casino doorway pages. Yet these continue to florish. Not to mention the link wheels going on within these hacked sites. Practices which are supposed to outlawed by Google (according to Cutts) but clearly that's just more BS.

Unlike most companies I deal with, I know what I'm getting into. Sadly it's not the case with Google.

If Google want to turn its business into predomiently ad based revenue, then say so. But they wont do that - being honest would be counter productive for Google's hidden agendas.

 

[RyanWeb]

Yes BUT unlike most companies where consumers pay for a service etc and the said company makes this clear to people, Google doesn't. Instead it dresses up mutton to look like lamb.

Lets take the hacked pages as another example...

If the Google alog is as advanced as what Cutts claims, then surely the team could tweak it to indentify these hacked sites and the injected casino doorway pages. Yet these continue to florish. Not to mention the link wheels going on within these hacked sites. Practices which are supposed to outlawed by Google (according to Cutts) but clearly that's just more BS.

Unlike most companies I deal with, I know what I'm getting into. Sadly it's not the case with Google.

If Google want to turn its business into predomiently ad based revenue, then say so. But they wont do that - being honest would be counter productive for Google's hidden agendas.

I guess we should say Google is ran more like a Government then a company ... But yes I agree, they are not transparent in any aspect.

 

[slotplayer]

most my time is spend in the retail industry so I see a completely different G beast. I'd like to get back to the gaming industry as the profit margins are much higher. The pace is a lot slower to.