What is mobile first indexing?

Mobile-first indexing means that we'll use the mobile version of the page for indexing and ranking, to better help our — primarily mobile — users find what they're looking for.” In short, Google is crawling the web as a smartphone browser would render your website, as opposed to how a desktop browser would.
 
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Google Mobile-First Indexing indicates only indexing not related to ranking… so no need to be tensed for your website ranking… Indexing means that the page is eligible to show up in Google’s search results. Google rank only those pages that are indexed, not rank those site pages that are not indexed.

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Mobile-first indexing means Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. Historically, the index primarily used the desktop version of a page's content when evaluating the relevance of a page to a user's query.
 
Mobile-first indexing means Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. Historically, the index primarily used the desktop version of a page's content when evaluating the relevance of a page to a user's query.
 
Mobile-first indexing is exactly what it looks like. It simply means that the mobile version of your website is the starting point for what Google includes in its index, as well as the baseline for how it determines rankings. If you monitor crawler traffic on your site, you may see increased traffic from Googlebot Smartphone, and cached versions of pages will typically be the mobile version of the page.
 
Mobile-first indexing means that Google uses the mobile version of a website’s content for ranking and indexing purposes. Mobile-first indexing was rolled out on 1st July 2019, for all websites. However, prior to this, Google used the desktop version of a page’s content for ranking and indexing. Mobile-first indexing was rolled out as the number of mobile users has increased drastically as compared to desktop users. Google now uses a smartphone agent to crawl and index your website.
 
MObile foirst indexing is google search spider which crawls a website as a mobile browser and then indexes the site according to what it find. A second crawler the desktop version spider will also crawl your site but rankings online for websites in both will be based on the results of the mobile fist indexing by googles search engine spider. Googlebot.

Its in a effort to ensure that in a age where people are using phones as the main method of going online that the websites adhere to good practces for mobile. This in turn allows google to present quality results when in the form of websites when a user makes a query.
 
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