Google has done its last mobile-first indexing switch today, a six-year process – Search Engine Land
Google started its efforts to move sites over to mobile-first indexing over six and a half years ago. Today, Google confirmed those efforts are now done, and the last batch of sites eligible for mobile-first indexing have been moved over.
Confirmation. John Mueller from Google confirmed today was the last batch on Mastodon today after I reported there was a massive batch of sites moved to mobile-first indexing in the past several hours. John said that this was the “last batch!”
Not all sites moved. John added that there will still be a “tiny handful of sites that really don’t work on mobile are left.” Those remaining sites, he said, will “just be crawled with desktop Googlebot going forward.”
Notifications. Today, a number of SEOs noticed that sites that have been on desktop-first indexing were notified they were moved to mobile-first indexing. Here is a screenshot from Richard Hearne he posted on Twitter:
History. As a reminder, Google started mobile-first indexing over 6.5 years…
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