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SEO for Webflow: A Comprehensive Guide to Optimizing Your Website
In today’s digital world, having a sleek, high-performing website is just the beginning; getting that website noticed by the right audience is where SEO comes...
As stated by Google,
This is the prevalent reason as to why Google indexes mobile searches and desktop searches so differently.
Problem is, most marketers are still operating off of a strategy that was built solely for the desktop. Yeah sure, you could always revamp your strategy to be optimized for mobile some other day, but take a quick look at some of this data before you decide to put it off any longer, all of which is taken from a recent Searchmetrics in-depth study.
This is as close to a revealing as we can get, as of course Google will never tell us exactly what goes into their ranking formulae. Thus, this study goes fully into precisely what the highest ranking mobile websites have in common, which is what you will find below.
First, the following chart shows the percent of mobile website domains that are in the top 100 search results in each industry that are “mobile optimized”.
This chart clearly shows the favor that Google places on sites that are optimized for a mobile viewing experience.
And what this essentially means is that in order to be considered to be worthy of being in the top mobile search results, your website needs to be optimized in the following disciplines.
Overall word count in content has definitely increased from last year, yet mobile posts are sitting at about 868 as the average. The following are all part of the highest ranking mobile web pages.
User experience can be basically summed up into these three factors:
Each one of these factors correlates exactly to the results that Google indexes in the top three positions. In each industry, the websites with the best numbers in these three variable is almost always indexed first by Google.
This is no small ranking factor, either. Which is why this is just another reason as to why good website design goes a long way, especially for mobile.
In order to get the optimal design for mobile search results, the report highlighted these three key points for user experience.
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Because Google knows quite well how mobile searches are done and what is necessary for a good mobile experience, meeting the technical requirements is a must, so they are heavily ranked in mobile search results. Here are the top best practices for technical benchmarks on mobile.
It’s no secret that having strong backlinks and social signals likely boost your rankings in Google, but it looks to be very different on mobile in terms of inbound links.
This leads us to believe that backlinks are only further on the decline compared to Google ranking algorithms, especially in mobile search results.
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