Mobile-Friendly Websites Rank Higher in Google Search

CHICAGO - March 3, 2015 - PRLog -- Making sure your website is mobile-friendly (also known as responsive or adaptive) is now more important than ever. Google announced that they will be making changes to their search algorithm starting on April 21, 2015. Google’s mobile ranking will label mobile-friendly websites, and rank them higher in search results.

Is Your Website Mobile-Friendly?

You can test your website here to see if it is mobile-friendly. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ If your website is mobile-friendly, it will adapt to the device used to view the site. A mobile-friendly website resizes content and images to display correctly on a desktop computer, smartphone, or tablet.

A mobile-friendly website is part of optimizing your site for search engines, also known as SEO (search engine optimization). With a higher ranking on Google, your site will get more visibility, and a higher click-through rate (CTR).

What if Your Website is Not Mobile-Friendly?

We all want our website to appear in Google’s search results. If your website is not mobile-friendly, it may not appear on the first few pages of Google’s search, and your business many not be found. More and more people are using their mobile phone or tablet to search for businesses on the web.

How Do I Make My Website Mobile-Friendly?

According to Google, if you are building your site with a content management system (CMS) such as WordPress or a platform offered by your hosting provider, you can check to see if the software or platform is listed in Google’s Customize Your Software tutorials.

You can also hire a professional website design company to build a mobile-friendly website for your company. J. Murray & Associates fully embraces responsive, adaptive, mobile-friendly web design as our standard development for building websites.

For more information on mobile-friendly website design, visit http://www.jmurrayassoc.com/capabilities/responsive-web-d...