Google Adds Best Practice for Better Page Discovery on Mobile-First Indexing
Google Search Central has updated its documentation to introduce a new best practice aimed at improving page discovery for large websites with separate mobile and desktop versions. This change is particularly significant for websites looking to enhance their SEO by ensuring faster and more comprehensive indexing by Google’s mobile-first crawler. Key Updates: Link Consistency Across Mobile and Desktop : Google now recommends that all links available on the desktop version of a site should also be included in the mobile version. This ensures that Google’s mobile-first crawler, which primarily uses the mobile version for indexing, doesn’t miss important pages. Alternative for Missing Links : If replicating all desktop links on mobile isn't feasible, Google suggests including these links in a sitemap file. This ensures that Google’s crawler can still discover and index these pages through the sitemap, even when the mobile and desktop versions differ