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Tuesday 4 November 2014

Will Responsive Website Be One of The Ranking Factor?

Recently, the SEO market is buzzing with a news or rumor that the responsive website will be a ranking factor in Google SERP. Let's explore the facts on this topic.

At last SMX, Pierre Far, Representative of Google made a couple of announcements. One of them was to provide good user experience to the mobile visitors. He gave a vague statement on this topic. Most of the SEO geeks took it in a way that "In the nearer future responsive website will be compulsory". The fact is little different than this.

As per the announcement of Pierre, he was encouraging webmasters to give better user experience to the mobile users. One of the best ways to do so is making a responsive website. The other option which was completely overlooked by most of the webmasters is to make a mobile version of a website for the mobile users. It's an old day practice, but still effective in some cases. You should choose any one option to improve user experience.



Let's understand with an example. If you have a hotel website, people on mobile site must be looking for your address. At the same time, people on a laptop or PC must be looking for some good offers, available coupon codes or tariff comparison. In this case, both types of users have completely different needs. So the best option is to create a mobile version of the website with targeted design and content. Let's take another scenario, you are an online marketing services provider. Anyone coming to your website must be looking for the internet marketing related services or suggestions. So, both mobile and desktop users are looking for the almost same thing in 99% cases. In such case, the best solution is to create a responsive website.

What can be the expected changes in the Google Algo in nearer future?
The expected changes can be user might implement mobile user experience as a ranking factor. The reason is Google's one of the agendas is to provide better user experience. As more and more people are moving towards mobile devices and Smartphones for search, Google will surely implement it into the ranking factors.

In fact, Google has already given an indirect hint of this update in nearer future by the stated vague announcement. There are also a few hints like the added guidelines for Smartphone websites. GWT also shows mobile usability report.

As per the flame in the SEO world, I would suggest to take a step to make your website mobile user friendly. You can make it either responsive or mobile version to reach this goal. Don't wait for Google's enforcement, start providing a good experience to your visitors.

Ash Vyas SEOAsh Vyas is working in Internet Marketing field for 6+ years. Have experience in handling projects of SEO, SMO, SEM, Content Marketing, Branding etc.
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