What is mobile-first indexing?

Mobile-first indexing is exactly what it sounds like. It just means that the mobile version of your website becomes the starting point for what Google includes in their index, and the baseline for how they determine rankings.

Mobile-first indexing means Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. Historically, the index primarily used the desktop version of a page's content when evaluating the relevance of a page to a user's query.

Mobile-first indexing means Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. 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.

Google predominantly uses the mobile version of a site's content, crawled with the smartphone agent, for indexing and ranking. This is called mobile-first indexing

Google predominantly uses the mobile version of a site's content, crawled with the smartphone agent, for indexing and ranking. This is called mobile-first indexing.

Mobile-first indexing signifies a significant change in how Google evaluates websites. It prioritizes the mobile version over the desktop version when determining rankings. This change in how Google ranks websites fits with the way most people use the internet today. Most folks now use their phones to browse the web, and Google wants to make sure websites work well on mobile devices.

Google predominantly uses the mobile version of a site's content, crawled with the smartphone agent, for indexing and ranking. This is called mobile-first indexing.

Mobile-first indexing is Google's practice of primarily using the mobile version of a website's content for ranking and indexing in search results, considering mobile-friendliness as a ranking factor.

Google predominantly uses the mobile version of a site's content, crawled with the smartphone agent, for indexing and ranking. This is called mobile-first indexing.

Mobile-first indexing means Google's web crawler prioritizes indexing the mobile version of a website's content over its desktop counterpart. Which informs rankings. With Google's original desktop-first indexing, their system would crawl pages from your site with the desktop and mobile user agent (crawlers).