The top 3 Things According to Google you Should know When Building a Website that Works on Mobile Devices!

Mobile devices have become the most used method to access the Internet in the last 5 years. Don’t believe us? About 40{dc5489bdca85a085d3f6bfcd450d6636123c977912f186ddd5551fdc273c79b8} of smart phones owners access the Internet at least 2 times per day, and with over 2.6 billion smart phones out there, that means that 1.04 billion people are going online every day from their phones.

What makes it so important to Google is that by the year 2020, there are going to be approximately 6.1 billion smart phones in use! You start to understand the importance of this, right. Google wants their customers to have a great experience. When users are looking for results to their searches and that means that when you search for auto part distributors, and you click on one of the results, you want to see a Website fit for your Phone screen.

Have you ever visited a Website on your phone and the letters are so small that you can’t see them? That’s why you need your site to be mobile friendly.

If you don’t care about this, you should know that Google has announced that they are going to overlook any Website that is not Mobile ready on their search results. Now, if that got your attention, here is what you need to do:

1. Make it easy for customers to understand and navigate your Website.
   Design your site to help make it easier for your customer to complete their most common tasks: from task conception, to visiting your site, to task completion.
2. Measure the effectiveness of your Website by how easily mobile customers can complete common tasks.
   When making your site mobile, you should prioritize by working with what the most important task for your customers are. They measure your mobile site by how easy customers can navigate it. Provide a uniform navigation consistency for your customers.
3. Select a mobile template, theme or design that works for all devices.
   It’s called “Responsive Web Design” or RWD, meaning that the page uses the same URL (domain) and the same code in the computer, tablet or phone. It just adjust itself automatically to any device.

All the Websites created using the “So You Can Web” platform are Responsive Web Designs, so if you are doing your website with us, you don’t have to worry about this. Simply verify on the tools bar at the top on Preview and change the view to “Tablet” or “Mobile”, fix anything that needs to be readjusted and that’s it, your websites ready for search engines.

Want to know if your Website is Mobile ready? Simply visit this Google tester and write your domain: Google Mobile Tester

You should obtain a result like this: