{"id":1872,"date":"2016-12-29T04:44:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T04:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silentblast.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2016-12-29T04:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T04:44:28","slug":"google-mobile-search-killing-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/?p=1872","title":{"rendered":"Google Mobile Search killing the desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This will be a complete game-changer for on-site search engine optimization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google has just started to roll out the &#8220;mobile First index&#8221; and it&#8217;s a doozie! It will change the game of SEO forever and change how your website gets ranked in it&#8217;s search engine. Here are a few thing you will need to know.<\/p>\n<h3>What is Mobile First index?<\/h3>\n<p>By now you know that Google crawls your site to add web pages to it&#8217;s index, just like a real person, it would view your website. It used to view as a desktop user. Now, that has changed as it will crawl your site as a &#8220;mobile user&#8221; instead. HUGE difference there!<\/p>\n<p>For one thing your website might appear very different to mobile users, or you may have a completely different site for mobile users alltogether. This is bad because it can&#8217;t follow links that are not there. As a result, down you go in it&#8217;s index.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind there are MANY variables here, like Speed &#8211; so if you site loads very slow, you don&#8217;t stand a chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom line<\/strong> &#8211; Start with MOBILE first.<\/p>\n<h3>What if you don&#8217;t have a responsive site?<\/h3>\n<p>Great question, well it will be business as usual, except, you already know it will rank responsive sites better, so switch over ASAP!<\/p>\n<p>Let us at Silentblast, help you in your <a href=\"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quest for SEO.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a complete game-changer for on-site search engine optimization. Google has just started to roll out the &#8220;mobile First index&#8221; and it&#8217;s a doozie! It will change the game of SEO forever and change how your website gets ranked in it&#8217;s search engine. Here are a few thing you will need to know.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silentblast2.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}