{"id":381,"date":"2015-04-21T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2020-04-03T19:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T05:38:28","slug":"googles-mobile-seo-penalty-kicks-in-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/googles-mobile-seo-penalty-kicks-in-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Mobile SEO Penalty Kicks In Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hope you’ve got your mobile site up and running, because today is THE DAY. Google will start pushing down – and raising up – rankings according to whether you have a mobile-friendly website or not. This isn’t across every search, though.<\/p>\n

This is restricted to those searches done through a mobile device – smartphones, tablets, etc. However, with the huge growth in the use of those devices during the typical day of a typical person, that should still make you think, and think hard, about your business’ mobile presence.<\/p>\n

Still not sure if you’re mobile friendly? Go here and find out. Now.:<\/p>\n

 Google’s Mobile Friendly Site Testing Tool<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re not mobile-friendly, you can at least take some comfort. You’re not alone. As much as 40% of the Fortune 500 might be in the same boat, seeing their mobile rankings drop:<\/p>\n


\nhttp:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/04\/21\/googles-mobile-friendly-update-could-impact-over-40-of-fortune-500\/#.3sozuh:tggX<\/a><\/p>\n

If there was a time to move on this, it is now. Google is making their move and it could affect your bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hope you’ve got your mobile site up and running, because today is THE DAY. Google will start pushing down – and raising up – rankings according to whether you have a mobile-friendly website or not. This isn’t across every search, though. This is restricted to those searches done through a mobile device – smartphones, tablets, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39,32,12],"tags":[],"content_audit":[110,105],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-search-engine-news","category-search-engine-ranking","category-seo","content_audit-audited","content_audit-outdated"],"modified_by":"Jonathan Cook","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"content_audit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_audit?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}