Chapter Three: How To Optimize Your Site For Mobile Phones & Tablets

So far your site is fully optimized for mobile searches, your site will rank under the mobile index in Google.

You’ll get to know if your site is optimized for Mobile through Google and other major search engines.

Confirm If Your Website Is Mobile-Usable

Below is the Google’s mobile usability testing tool via the Google Search Console to test if your website is Mobile-Usable.

To begin using the Google’s mobile usability testing tool, log into your Google Search Console account, click on Search Traffic, then on the “Mobile Usability” button.

And you will be notified if the mobile users have got certain issues viewing your website.

Another way to test if your sites are Mobile-Optimized is to use the Google’s Mobile-Friendly test by entering your website URL in the tool.

You will receive a full report from Google telling you whether or not your site is Mobile-Optimized. You will be sent a notification if the “Mobile GoogleBot” detected some issues loading all of the information on your page.

Get To Know How Your Responsive Website Appears

It's great to know how Google views your mobile site. It's equally great if your site is viewed in full on all devices.

Leveraging this free tool would be recommended to test if your site has responsive designs.

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Use The Mobile Feature Of Google Search Console’s “Fetch As Google”

As visual learning would be preferred by most people, it’s much more important and useful to literally find out how Google views your site data.

Spot-testing important pages on your website using the mobile feature of Google Search Console’s “Fetch As Google” would be recommended.

You leverage this by popping a crucial URL from your website into the tool.

From the drop-down menu, choose “Mobile: Smartphone” as shown in the box below.