For years folks have heard of cookies on the world wide web and wondered why they needed to get rid of them sometimes because, well who doesn’t like a tasty cookie?
Now there is a new food that is all in vogue. It is hamburger. You’ve probably seen the hamburger icon, especially when you surf on your tablet or phone. What is the hamburger? It’s the little icon for the menus:
You can see the bun on the top and bottom and the hamburger in the middle. And it just means that there is a menu waiting for you to see when you touch or click on the hamburger.
It is a convenient way to take a long horizontal menu and compress it for easier navigation on the mobile web.
The way we interact with web sites continues to change at a startling pace. And the way web sites interact with us does too.
One big change coming very rapidly is mobile friendliness. Until now it has been a nicety. Some folks have chosen to implement it and others have chosen not to – feeling their sites are best viewed on desktop computers.
Responsive design is the key term here. That means making your website look nice on a variety of devices. Notice how the look gets smaller and then on a phone instead of getting smaller, it actually changes. That is what some organizations have said “Thanks, but no thanks” to.
Google is changing that. And they have even announced the day. Beginning April 21 of THIS YEAR they will begin to penalize sites that are not responsive or mobile-friendly. Yes, you read that right. If your site is not mobile-friendly, it will not rank as well as sites that are.
We have a new hosting client with over 6000 products shown on their web site. Google says none of the pages are mobile friendly. Now they will have to invest in a way to get all these products to be mobile friendly so they can continue to get the same great search results they have been getting.
If you have a site built partly or completely in Flash, forget about it. It is time to start work on your new site that will be search and mobile friendly.
If you are not sure if your site is mobile friendly or not, visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ and enter a link to your site. Google will not only tell you if you pass or fail, but give you tips on how to fix or improve your site to make it more mobile friendly.
And then, if you need help, be sure to call EduCyber at 303 268-2245 ext 4!
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