How Has Google's Mobile Friendly Update Affected Websites?

Last week, Google started rolling out a new mobile friendly update to its mobile search algorithm. This was aimed at significantly changing the mobile search results to give preference to mobile ready web sites over non mobile ready ones. Experts jokingly termed it 'Mobilegeddon', because all signs indicated that it is a major change in many years, and will significantly impact websites. But a week after the launch, has it really been such a significant update?

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How To Optimize Content For Google's Mobile Algorithm Update?

What is the biggest algorithm update Google has made over the last decade? For most of us, Google Panda and Penguin immediately spring to mind. Right? Wrong! The biggest and most notable change Google has made over the last few years happened, or at least started today. Unofficially dubbed as "Mobilegeddon", this new April 21 update is focused towards promoting mobile-friendly sites in search results, effectively turning the tables for various businesses, large and small.

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What You Need To Know About Google's New Mobile-Friendly Update?

According to Google Webmaster Central, Google will be rolling out the most significant mobile algorithm change to date starting April 21. Google already owns the mobile revolution, with Android as the biggest mobile platform, Google Search as the biggest mobile search provider, and Play Store as the largest mobile app store. Google wants to push forward with more control over websites, and hence a 'mobile-friendly' algorithm update is inevitable. Here is what you can expect from the update starting April 21.

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Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Makes Your Website Vulnerable!

According to a latest news, the popular Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin has a major vulnerability that makes a website susceptible to blind SQL injections. This is a very popular plugin that is used by over 14 million websites. Reportedly, all versions of SEO by Yoast prior to 1.7.3.3 are vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection web application flaw. This is an alarming news for those that use this plugin, because it could seriously compromise the data on their website.

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Google To Rank Sites Based On Accuracy Of Information

In recent months, Google has become increasingly focused towards the quality of search results pages. It always was, but there has been talk of new ranking signals being incorporated into the search engine. Where certain signals were merely guidelines in the past, they'll soon geared to become direct signals. One example is mobile-friendly design. Another is security. This leads us to believe that a major algorithm update might be in order pretty soon.

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Google Search Results Just Became More Mobile-friendly!

Mobile optimization is the need of the hour. Mobile has grown at a fantastic pace - not just in screen size and technical specs, but in usage as well. Google has pointed out time and again that mobile optimization is a must for ranking well in search engines. Recently, it introduced a label for mobile-friendly sites to be displayed in search results. In contrast, a red label was introduced for sites that were slow and not mobile-friendly. Google has made two more important changes recently that reflect on the importance of mobile optimization.

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