Google’s Mobile Algorithm “Mobilegeddon” to Have No Impact on Tablets
For some reason I’ve still been seeing a lot of confusion relating to the mobile-friendly algorithm Google is rolling out on April 21st. Barry Schwartz at seroundtable highlighted the following tweet from the Google Webmaster team.
@Jumzle The upcoming mobile-friendly change is for mobile users, not tablet users.
— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) April 1, 2015
Remember, Google has kindly provided the following information to help you get ready for the update:
To get help with making a mobile-friendly site, check out our guide to mobile-friendly sites. If you’re a webmaster, you can get ready for this change by using the following tools to see how Googlebot views your pages:
- If you want to test a few pages, you can use the Mobile-Friendly Test.
- If you have a site, you can use your Webmaster Tools account to get a full list of mobile usability issues across your site using the Mobile Usability Report.