How Will Google Crawl A Site After The Mobile-First Index Plan? If you follow Google and keep a track of what it says, you may have definitely heard about its intention of switching to a mobile-first index. But if you have missed out on that, here are some key points about Google’s forthcoming switch to this kind of indexing.
Why has Google come up with a mobile-first index plan? A majority of people are using their mobile devices and smartphones to search on Google. But, the ranking system of the search engine today still looks at the desktop version of a page’s content, which may or may not be the same as the mobile version, to evaluate its relevance to users. It is less likely that the content on both mobile and desktop versions be the same. This is when there are many issues faced. Mobile content generally has much lesser content than the desktop page. Therefore, when Google ranks a perfect desktop page on the first page and users are led to its mobile version, they see great disappointment as they don’t find what they expect there. Google’s algorithms are not evaluating the actual page that is seen by mobile searchers. The reason why publishers don’t include all the content from their desktop version on their mobile site is because they want