Google Penalizes Websites Not Mobile-Friendly!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lose Website Rank if Site Not Mobile-Friendly Mobile/tablet surfing is booming (an estimated 31 percent of traffic in 1st quarter of 2014) and going up year-after-year. It's time to call your Website Designer/Marketer for a website conversation to mobile. Why? Google has given plenty of clues that it will penalize your website ranking if not optimized for cell phones and tablets. In layman's terms, Google is rolling out changes to its ranking algorithms that favor websites that are mobile-friendly and penalizing or down ranking sites that are not. Websites that are "misconfigured" can expect to slide down the search engines should content not be optimized for a smart phone or tablet according to Google's Webmaster Blog. Google Warns Sites Will Be Penalized "To improve the search experience for smartphone users and address their pain points, we plan to…