Lowered Google's search ranking for non-mobile friendly websites

If your website is not mobile-friendly then your website’s Google search ranking will get bumped down.

Google has set a deadline of April 21 for websites to ensure they were mobile-friendly, and those that did not meet the requirements risked being penalised.

The search engine giant has set a deadline of April 21 for websites to ensure they were mobile-friendly, and those that did not meet the requirements risked being penalised by the search engine giant.

The requirements included being readable on smaller phone screens, not using software that was not compatible on mobiles and having links spaced out to make searching on mobiles easier for users.

– Source: New Zealand Herald

I think this is definitely the way to go to force websites to be mobile-friendly websites. We shouldn’t torture web users or web customers to scroll so much. It’s pretty annoying IMO.

So please make sure you have a mobile-friendly website! Or ask a web developer to make your website mobile-friendly!