Google: The Mobile-Friendly Algorithm Will Be Larger Than Panda Or Penguin

Mar 17, 2015 - 8:44 am 31 by

Google Mobile UXIf you had any doubt how big and "significant" the upcoming mobile-friendly ranking algorithm will be for Google's mobile results, you should remove those doubts now.

Google's Zineb Ait Bahajji, a Webmaster Trends Analyst, said at SMX Munich an hour ago that this algorithm will have a bigger effect than that of Panda or Penguin.

This was posted on Twitter by Aleyda Solis and then retweeted by Google's very own Gary Illyes.

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Google's Panda algorithm impacted at its biggest point about 12% of the search queries. Penguin was closer to 4% at it's max.

The big difference here is that this mobile-friendly algorithm only impacts mobile search, not desktop. But that can be around 50% of all queries on Google these days.

If your site is not mobile-friendly, it will suffer greatly in the mobile search results. So make sure to get ready now for this April 21st launch.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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