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ergophobe

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Re: google-mobilegeddon
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2015, 03:46:24 PM »
I just looked at a small site with a terrible mobile experience that was flagged by Google as mobile unfriendly.

April 1 - July 31 this year is up 50% in mobile sessions coming from organic search while overall it is up only 28% (most of which is due to mobile)

On the other hand, mobile sessions coming from direct and referral are up closer to 90%, while overall they are much lower.

So it's not like the site got banned, but mobile organic is up much less mobile from other sources.
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Gurtie

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Re: google-mobilegeddon
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2015, 04:20:29 PM »
>> different

Google specifically said in April that desktop SERPs wouldn't be impacted by the mobile friendly update, which did surprise me at the time as I had thought the desktop/mpbile algos were converging pre the update.

>> frontpage

aside from all those alerts about .css and .JS (although doubt frontpage uses .css?) I have been seeing more and more older sites working less well in new browsers. It wouldn't surprise me if G is downgrading sites which don't work well in Chrome, or downgrading sites which don't work on specific broowsers to people searching using that browser - the first seems more likely but less defensible... either way that would be my guess for some of the variations that people are seeing which don't seem to fit with location/device friendliness/adwords spend theories.
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