Google traffic drop since making sites mobile friendly.

[mike2010]

Hopefully i'm not the only one ?

Regarding 3 of my sites that were completely failing the google mobile friendly online 'tool'. Since they were failing so bad, I decided to find (pay) someone to help out....and since 5 days ago, these sites were completely passing and now mobile friendly.

Maybe i'm panicking way too early...But my traffic dropped 50% for all 3 sites since doing so. the big drops occurred the last 2 days. Wondering if my traffic would go back if reverting back to non-mobile friendly again. arghh...dunno what to do. I'm hoping it's just shuffling (dancing) through the results...but everyday I lose business, it's eating at me more.

thoughts ?

I have yet another site , that's coded completely different and of different material / topic.. The site is not mobile friendly at all...yet, it's getting more google organic traffic now ..then it's had in years. (I posted about this one in 'google phantom update thread' )

[aakk9999]

What exactly did you change to make your site mobile friendly?

For example, has your navigation been siloed and now changed in a way that there are (for example) all nav links (first, second etc level) available on all pages?

Have your rankings suffered after changing the site to mobile friendly?

Have you done the analysis to see where your traffic dropped, was it from desktop, from mobile or equally across devices?

[mike2010]

navigation wise nothing was changed.

the site was basically just cleaned up cosmetically, along with css being condensed into a seperate file...the site in general having more up to date html protocols. outdated html removed.

I didn't even have these on my sites (no viewpoint meta tags at all)

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0">

they were added to all 3.

<div class

elements were added in place of

<table>

elements. So the table stuff was taken out.

tags such as

<font size color="">

and such were removed....new div stuff from css file replaced it.

all stuff that i'm guessing should of helped and not hurt. right ?

aakk, there were no substantial traffic differences between mobile / desktop platforms. and the traffic from the other search engines so far has remained idle.

I just wish this 'shuffling' around could be ironed out more quickly....so we can all know where we stand.

Considering how much processing power in general google has..it shouldn't be so wishy washy like this.

Every next day is like torture. (not knowing)

[not2easy]

I saw this on one high traffic site. GWT still showed it as not mobile friendly a few days after the changes. They had crawled since the changes, so it was puzzling. I clicked on the sitemap and saw it had a date from 6 months ago. It is an informational site, does not have changes every day so there had been changes, but no new URLs. But the same day I re-submitted the sitemap it jumped back to where it had been. I see no improvement - but no permanent loss either.

[mike2010]

after checking thru stats again :

Opera Mini browsing stats are up pretty substantially. around +35% (non-mobile stats, but still interesting)

mobile stats have remained the same throughout so far.

this is regarding one of the adult sites that i'm careful with...no pop-ups or annoying stuff...like most idiotic adult webmasters throw on their sites these days.