Day 21: Mobile friendliness of your website 2

Day 21: Mobile friendliness of your website

We are in an era where a person cannot survive without their mobile phone. It has taken over the desktop as a primary way of using the internet. The desktop is now the only way of using the internet. Even Google encourages the website owners to focus on the mobile-friendliness of your site. It is important to be updated so that you can get more website visitors. Make sure your website gives the best user experience to mobile users as well.

Mobile Friendly Website

 First, you need to determine whether your website is mobile friendly or not. This can be done by analyzing the given points:

  1. Your web pages should load properly on mobile devices.
  2. Site loading speed
  3. The content should be displayed properly.
  4. Easy navigation
  5. Easy for the search engines to understand.

If your website is not mobile-friendly, you may lose some potential users. Google even considers the mobile of your website to settle your website ranking. Make sure that all the data that is there on your website should also be available on the mobile version of it.

We will discuss some tips on how to make your site mobile friendly:

  1. Make your existing website itself a mobile-friendly website– Do not create a separate website for mobile users. The major drawback with it is the duplicate content. You must already be knowing that Google penalizes for having duplicate content. So if a create a separate mobile-friendly website, you might copy the content of your original website on to that. That is a clear case of duplicate content again. You can not afford to be penalized if you want the best SEO results. Work towards optimizing your existing website as a mobile-friendly site.
  2. Create a responsive design– The users should be able to use your website on all screen resolutions, screen size, platform and orientation. A responsive website makes it easier for the Google to identify and index it.
  3. Focus on your site speed– If your site loads slow, people are likely to leave it in between without even going through it. That is not the user experience one expects from your site. Google considers your site speed as a ranking factor.

tips on how to make your site mobile friendly4. Image optimization– You should not upload full resolution HD images on your mobile site but should rather optimize it. You can use many tools available like ImageOptim or WordPress plugins like WP Smush to resize your images and make them smaller.

5. Use less redirecting links- More the number of redirects on your site, slower your site will be. Do not keep the links on your site that direct you to a deleted post. Try using direct links.

6. Do not block JavaScript, HTML, and CSS– Blocking these might make it difficult for Google to read your website, and hence you do not get the expected SEO results.

Keep these points in mind to enhance the user experience on your mobile website. Run a mobile-friendly test on Google to test your website and your current position. Once your site is optimized tell Google about it so that it can be indexed.

Our next article will be a discussion on site speed. Google loves sites that load quickly, probably under 2 seconds. There are many tools online tools for this.

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