What is the Mobilegeddon update?

[smithmary01]

What is the Mobilegeddon update?

[AbbyDenver]

Mobilegeddon is the name given by SEOs to the 2015 google update that prioritized mobile friendly sites on mobile devices. Before that update, search didn't distinguish between mobile and desktop sites so you might get results showing desktop pages that were hard to read on mobile devices. After that update google began moving to mobile first indexing and claims to have finished that process this year. Basically, if you have a website and you care about ranking, you need to have either a mobile version that automatically loads when a mobile device clicks on the site or a responsive design that scales the site for mobile devices. The vast majority of sites now use responsive designs rather than alternative mobile designs.