Why Is Google Moving to Mobile-Only Indexing? — Jordan Koene // Searchmetrics

Show Notes

• ·1:37 : The sort of history of Google's crawl and how it's evolved. ·2:08 : Google a ounced mobile first indexing in 2016. ·2:47 : Now, were only using our phones, we're just totally going away from the desktop. ·2:50 : Why is Google moving to mobile only crawl? ·3:10 : They have nailed the momentous shift that's occurred, not just in very convenient spaces for mobile utilization, like received reading news, banking, or real estate or insurance, those have now become heavily dominated by mobile traffic and mobile utilization for users good mobile experience and prioritizing those calls in that data over everything else. ·4:39 : A variety of different reasons why Google is making the shift to prioritizing mobile. ·8:47 : In theory, mobile experiences are a little bit less of a load. ·9:19 On some level, this is a Google cost consideration. And on other levels, people are just spending more time focusing on the mobile web