Google’s mobile-first search index rolled out to a handful of sites

[The Buzz]

Last November, Google announced it was experimenting with mobile-first indexing. This week, it revealed on its Webmaster Central Blog that, "This process has already started for a handful of sites and is closely being monitored by the search team."

More from the announcement:

As we said, sites that make use of responsive web design and correctly implement dynamic serving (that include all of the desktop content and markup) generally don't have to do anything.

Here are some extra tips that help ensure a site is ready for mobile-first indexing:

• Make sure the mobile version of the site also has the important, high-quality content. This includes text, images (with alt-attributes), and videos - in the usual crawlable and indexable formats.
• Structured data is important for indexing and search features that users love: it should be both on the mobile and desktop version of the site. Ensure URLs within the structured data are updated to the mobile version on the mobile pages.
• Metadata should be present on both versions of the site. It provides hints about the content on a page for indexing and serving. For example, make sure that titles and meta descriptions are equivalent across both versions of all pages on the site.
• No changes are necessary for interlinking with separate mobile URLs (m.-dot sites). For sites using separate mobile URLs, keep the existing link rel=canonical and link rel=alternate elements between these versions.
• Check hreflang links on separate mobile URLs. When using link rel=hreflang elements for internationalization, link between mobile and desktop URLs separately. Your mobile URLs' hreflang should point to the other language/region versions on other mobile URLs, and similarly link desktop with other desktop URLs using hreflang link elements there.
• Ensure the servers hosting the site have enough capacity to handle potentially increased crawl rate. This doesn't affect sites that use responsive web design and dynamic serving, only sites where the mobile version is on a separate host, such as m.example.com.

Read the entire post here: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/20...or-mobile.html

[PROFRBcom]

I hate this. No one signs up to play poker on mobile. I don't want to support it in any fashion. I've segregated some of my sign ups lately to track mobile traffic and the income is simply pathetic and not worth the effort.

BUT NO.... Google tells me it's going to screw over the best of my business if I don't fix my website for customers that I don't even want. Anyone know a good Drupal 7 developer?