Reduced Content on Mobile Page
@denstopa @krystianszastok well yeah, if the content is not on the page, it's pretty hard to rank it
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
Google Search Console Verification
@infosolutionsg sorry, I misread your tweet. No, you don't have to reverify your responsive site. My bad
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 6, 2016
Canonicals
@serbayarda nope
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
Annotations in the HTML
@gfiorelli1 @aleyda asking people to switch these would take decades, so we're trying to be a bit smarty about them
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
Links
@jennyhalasz @schachin I don't want to say anything definite about links yet. It's too early for that cos things are very much in motion
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
@jennyhalasz @schachin yeah, I just don't know the definite answer to the links part of it.
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
Mobile Content Behind Tabs, Accordions, etc
@schachin no, in the mobile-first world content hidden for ux should have full weight
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
Desktop Sites Without a Mobile Version
Mobile-first: with ONLY a desktop site you'll still be in the results & be findable. Recall how mobilegeddon didn't send anyone to oblivion?
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 6, 2016
@willohara if no mobile content at all then your page will be indexed and ranked based on desktop content
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 7, 2016
H1s & Title Tags
@kleinja 1/2 this is a super interesting question, cos on mobile people created those solely for users, while on desktop for search engines
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
@kleinja 2/2 For search you might need to optimise differently on mobile than on desktop. Less real estate to work with
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
Page Speed
@SEOMalc we're still considering what more can we do on the speed front. It's a surprisingly hard nut to crack
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016
Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost Criteria
@jenstar no change there, just switching the indexed content source to mobile version (I.e. Direct opposite of what we have now)
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 7, 2016
Separate Mobile and Desktop Indexes
.@jenstar I'd expect many different experiments. Maybe a separate index would be part of them, maybe not. (cc @goutaste @BermanHale)
— Paul Haahr (@haahr) November 6, 2016
.@jenstar But I wouldn't interpret an experiment of any sort as a separate index in the sense of … (cc @goutaste @BermanHale)
— Paul Haahr (@haahr) November 6, 2016
Current Testing Impact
.@BritneyMuller I would be very surprised to detect any effects of mobile-first indexing at this stage (cc @BermanHale)
— Paul Haahr (@haahr) November 6, 2016
@denstopa @krystianszastok I think, *think*, we're aiming for close to quality-neutral launch; ideally there wouldn't be too much delta
— Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) November 5, 2016