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Mobile Unfriendly site desktop search penalty

         

maha

7:29 pm on Apr 12, 2016 (gmt 0)

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one of my sites is still mobile unfriendly. It's take longer than expected with the developer.

I realize mobile rankings are penalized, Are the DESKTOP search ranking penalized with mobile unfriendly sites?

Andy Langton

7:36 pm on Apr 12, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Put simply, no.

In fact, desktop rankings practically dictate where mobile-friendly rankings would appear, so desktop rankings are more important than mobile as far as the current algorithm goes. There may well be less impact on mobile rankings that you might expect, as the PR has not really matched the reality when it comes to Google's handling of mobile sites.

That said, you're likely looking at 50% of your search audience being mobile, so best to sort it out ASAP ;)

maha

6:55 pm on Apr 13, 2016 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



thanks.. we're working on it. the software is so old that it just taking longer than expected.