How is your mobile website, Don't have one, well you might want to get one according to Google.
Do you have a website now and need to test it to see if you are ready for the mobile changes coming on April 21st, 2015.
If you have a website and want to be found online, it's time to get busy.
Tuesday, search giant Google is changing its ranking system to favor those with mobile friendly websites, i.e., ones that can be easily read on smartphones, without tons of graphics and flash to slow things down.
In some circles, this is being called Mobilegeddon with thousands of sites scrambling to get ready. A top 1 or 2 website in a search query could hypothetically fall to ninth or 10th place, causing a loss of thousands of dollars in potential business, says Greg Sterling, an independent analyst and columnist for the SearchEngineLand website.
"As many as 40% of top websites are not currently mobile friendly," says Sterling. "There's a big category of people who have completely ignored mobile."
Google is making the changes, Sterling says, because so many more people are now using the smartphone as the hub of their daily lives.
"Google's objective is to get people to use search on mobile phones, to make the experience better," he says.
So what to do, if you haven't gotten your website mobile-friendly yet?
• Check out your website and see if it passes the Google test. Google has a "Mobile-Friendly" test page in its developer section. Just type in the URL and see if it passes. The URL:https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/. If you pass, great, relax. If you don't — you might want to do something about it.