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Is my site mobile-first indexed?
First Things First: There is No Separate Index for Mobile In 2018, Google explained that with mobile-first indexing, the URL of the mobile-friendly version of your site is indexed. If your website has separate mobile and desktop URLs, Google shows the mobile URL to mobile users and the desktop URL to desktop users.
What is phone indexing?
Mobile App Indexing is an SEO tool which allows businesses to index their app content, so that it can be found when people place search engine queries on Google from mobile devices. The tool was created by Google and is meant to reward businesses that index their apps with higher search ranking results.
How to check if your site is indexed by search engines?
To see if your site has been indexed by search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, FireFox etc.), enter the URL of your domain with the word “site:” before it. For example if I wanted to search my website, I would type “site:wpbasics.org” in the search bar and hit enter. The results will show all of the pages from your site that have been indexed.
Why is Google not indexing my mobile site?
Make sure that Googlebot can access and render your mobile page content and resources. Use the same meta robots tags on the mobile and desktop site. If you use a different meta robots tag on the mobile site (especially the noindex or nofollow tags), Google may fail to crawl and index your page when your site is enabled for mobile-first indexing.
Is there a mobile first index on Google?
It’s important to note that there isn’t a separate mobile-first index; Google Search continues to use only one index. Google Search continues to show the URL that is the most appropriate to users (whether it’s a desktop or mobile URL) in Search results.
What’s the best way to index a mobile site?
If you have to prioritize which types you add to your mobile site, start with Breadcrumb , Product, and VideoObject structured data. Use correct URLs in structured data. Make sure that URLs in the structured data on the mobile versions are updated to the mobile URLs. If you use Data Highlighter, train it on your mobile site.