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Google’s Mobile-First Indexing is Now Default for New Domains
Google is enabling mobile-first indexing (crawling sites with a mobile user-agent) by default for new domains as of July 1, 2019. These are sites Google defines as “previously unknown to Google Search.”
After successfully ramping up mobile-first indexing from a small-scale experiment a few years ago, making it the default for new domains should be a good test for evaluating how aggressively it can be rolled out in the future.
Unbounce.com
"In fact, if we look at Google's actions, it's undeniable that 2019 will be the year of page speed, the year of the lightning bolt. It's the year when the difference between fast and slow content becomes the difference between showing up in the search results (Whether paid or organic) or disappearing completely."
Moz.com
"Google has indicated site speed (and as a result, page speed) is one of the signals used by its algorithm to rank pages. And research has shown that Google might be specifically measuring time to first byte as when it considers page speed. In addition, a slow page speed means that search engines can crawl fewer pages using their allocated crawl budget, and this could negatively affect your indexation."
Google Webmaster's Blog
"Today (March 26, 2018) we're announcing that after a year and a half of careful experimentation and testing, we've started migrating sites that follow the best practices for 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."
You could hire a developer to rebuild your current website from scratch to meet Mobile-First standards, but the cost of doing that just isn't reasonable. And what about your new sites? We're talking thousands of dollars of ongoing expenses for each and every website built!
You could optimize the websites on your own. WordPress, for example, has tons of plugins to help with page speed and optimization, but that's not ideal either. You run into compatibility issues, site security issues, countless hours of updates and ongoing maintenance. Even after all of that, your site may not run as fast as you need it to.
How Did We Do It?
As soon as Google announced "Mobile-First" indexing, we hit the drawing board to understand and answer what would become every website owner's biggest questions.
"How do I keep up with, and stay competitive with Google's Mobile-First changes? (If you're not already asking yourself this question, you should start. The future of your business depends on it).
We first looked at how the vast majority of mobile sites were being built (like WordPress and Wix), and immediately found a major flaw in the design architecture. Most all of them are constructed for desktop first, then the elements of the website are manipulated to fit smaller screens LAST. This is what we all know as mobile-responsive or mobile-friendly site design.
It's completely frustrating and a huge waste of time. We've been through it!
What's worse and has a larger effect, is you're compromising the performance of your website!
How can a website load quickly when there's so much to figure out in the background?
So, the question remained.
How could we get the absolute best performance across all devices and squash the editing headache?
Then the answer hit...
What if we took the complete opposite approach?
What if we build for the smallest mobile device first?
It makes perfect sense...
Let's completely reverse the idea behind old ways of building websites.
Let's instead start building pages on the smallest screen first, because it forces you to add the most important elements you want on your site, then add additional elements as you increase the screen size.
This ensures everything fits together as it should, because you've essentially built your site for each size screen, instead of trying to shrink a larger site into a smaller screen.
Like most ideas, it all sounded great in theory, but would it actually work?
Proprietary Ability to determine what is viewed on each device
You decide exactly what content you want to show on mobile, tablet, and desktop. MobiFirst automatically detects the device and shows the desired content!
Equipped With E-Commerce Capabilities No Product Nor Bandwidth limits (that is big) - (Yes)
Enable the E-Commerce widget and enjoy selling products directly from MobiFirst. No Product Limits, No Bandwidth limits. Instantly integrates with PayPal and Stripe for direct payments. Record sales, invoices, get email notifications, and more!
Style Section
Completely customize the style of your website from backgrounds, headers, footers, fonts, to custom CSS, and more. Or, if you want a completely different look, you can even switch between entire website themes without losing work already done!
Theme Selection
MobiFirst comes equipped with 70+ website themes to choose from, ranging across dozens of different niches. Each theme is cutomizable to your liking.
Abundant Widget Selection
MobiFirst uses the modular concept of widgets which allows you to customize each widget to fit your desired design. With over 20 already in place, and more to come, your options for site design and functionality are endless. Think of a new element you would want. Let us know. We will constantly be adding new ones, as well.
Clone Widgets
You can easily duplicate content and designs. Let's say you create a section on a website that you know you'll want to use again for future sites, simply save and clone the widget so it's always available for you to use!
Clone Sites
You can even clone entire websites and make them new themes to choose from when you start future projects. This is extremely helpful when you're happy with a site and want to create another one fast!
Regular Platform Updates
We are contantly updating the MobiFirst platform to make designing and building websites fun and easy for you. Have ideas on how MobiFrist can work better? Let us know! It could be part of the updates.
Multiple Languages
Build websites in entirely different languages! Currently in English, French, Italian, and German, with more languages on the way!
SEO
Each page is equipped with full SEO capabilities. Hide pages from search engines, if you want. Add titles and descriptions for META SEO and Open Graph (for social media).
Blog
With one click you can add a customizable, full-fledged blog to any page!
3 Sites
Dramatically Increase Site Speed
Migrate & Build Up To THREE Personal Sites
Use Your Own Domain Names
Includes Unlimited Hosting For All MobiFirst Sites
Closed Source For Unmatched Site Security
Optional SSL Certificate
Easy Point and Click Interface With Multiple Device Views for Easy Editing
40 Design Templates to Choose From
Complete Design Flexibility
One Time Payment
Unlimited Sites
Dramatically Increase Site Speed
Migrate And Build An Unlimited Number Of Sites
Use Your Own Domain Names
Includes Unlimited Hosting For All MobiFirst Sites
Closed Source For Unmatched Site Security
Optional SSL Certificate
Easy Point and Click Interface With Multiple Device Views for Easy Editing
90+ Design Templates to Choose From
Complete Design Flexibility
One Time Payment