Google to apply mobile-first indexing to all sites within a year
Google is currently sending out notices via Google Search Console with new indexing issues detected’ alerts.
In those emails, it communicates the issues Google has when it comes to moving that site over to mobile-first indexing. It also says “Google expects to apply their new indexing to all websites in the next six to twelve months.”
New indexing
Google first introduced mobile-first indexing back in November 2016 and by December 2018 half of all sites in Google’s search results were from mobile-first indexing. Indexing simply means that Google will crawl your site from the eyes of a mobile browser and use that mobile version for indexing and ranking.
All in on indexing
Google is sending out notices now and those notices say “Google expects to apply new indexing to all websites in the next six to twelve months.”
Here is a screenshot of this “mobile-first indexing issues detected”
The notices
Clearly, Google is trying to be proactive and notify sites that are not yet moved over to their new indexing with specific advice on what those sites need to do to become mobile-first indexing ready.
In this specific case, the issue was with “Missing image” is listed as an error, while “Page quality issue” and “Video issues” are warnings.”
Why we care
If you get one of these notices it is likely a notice you should read and take action on. If Google has issues with accessing your site with their crawlers, then it might impact your indexing and ranking of your web pages in Google.
What to do
What you need to do next is to contact your web developer or a digital agency that will be able to set up your website to be ready for Googles new indexing.
