Google’s Mobilegeddon Algorithm ~ is your website affected?

Google launched its most feared algorithm update a few days ago. The seriousness of this update is evidenced by the fact that, unlike any previous major update, Google started giving us notice in October last year. They then issued a formal warning last month giving site owners time to deal with any problems which may ruin their rankings. This was an unprecedented move by Google.

What did ShowMe do about it? Well, all ShowMe clients can rest assured that their web presence should actually be enhanced by this update and definitely not negatively affected in any way.

In October last year all webmasters were strongly warned by Google that they should give attention to any issues regarding how their websites perform on a mobile device. Search on mobile devices is growing exponentially and outdated websites that don’t display properly on small (although now much larger) screens will be penalized.

Again in November Google made the following statement:

“We are also experimenting with using mobile-friendly criteria as a ranking signal”.

We saw this as a serious indication that all website owners better get their act together and we set about making sure that all our clients would actually be positively affected by the update.

Webmasters were again warned in February with this statement:

“This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact on our search results”.

On April 21st, the update finally went live and testing ShowMe listings and customer websites has confirmed that we are on top of our game. In addition, the mobile version of all ShowMe community websites is very favourably rated by Google. This combined with our excellent content will ensure that we continue to have a major impact on search results.

This is the ShowMe difference – our customers can rest assured that their presence on the internet is ALWAYS taken care of by people who care!

Test your website or your ShowMe listing here.

As illustrated below, you can see that both ShowMe East London’s home page plus our websites and listings are all mobile friendly.

The advantages of this are numerous but essentially, a well designed mobile website puts you in a much better position than your competitors. If your website isn’t designed to be viewed on a mobile device, users will quickly look for another one that is optimized for it. Basically, a mobile website ensures that you capture the attention of your visitor and, moreover, keep it.

To find out more about websites and listings on ShowMe East London, please contact Sandy on 082 468 4578 or email at sandy@showme.co.za.