It’s no secret that Google gives preferential ranking in its search results to mobile-friendly sites. In this WordPress tutorial, you will learn how you can use Google's handy testing tool to check if your site meets the criteria for passing the mobile friendliness test.
- In late 2014, Google officially launched…mobile-friendly labels in mobile search results.…If you're searching for something…from your phone, say, ice cream,…you can see the mobile-friendly label…beside these links.…Notice that search results with the mobile-friendly tag…appear first, ahead of those sites without it.…There's no doubt that Google gives…preferential positioning to mobile-friendly websites…increasing the odds of click-throughs…for those near the top.…So, how do you know if your site…would earn a mobile-friendly tag?…Well, Google has a test we can use.…
I'll enter the URL for the test site…we looked at earlier in the course…and we'll test it out.…Here we can see that it doesn't meet the criteria.…The text is too small to read,…the links are too close together,…among some other things.…If you'd like a full list of the criteria…required to be mobile-friendly,…check out this article on Google's webmaster central blog.…If you run your website through the test…and it doesn't pass, don't worry.…By the end of this course, I'll show you…
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