Google Mobile Penalty Study Week 1 – mobile friendly +8%, unfriendly -4%
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April 28, 2015
So we are a full week into Google’s well publicized mobile friendly algo update (or penalty, depending on how you want to market it) and at this point I’m regretting my decision to publish day-to-day updates as frankly, there’s been very little to update. So far, in aggregate across the 59 sites we’re tracking, we’re seeing average daily mobile search traffic up 8% on mobile optimized sites and down 4% on non-mobile friendly sites.
Hardly the search traffic apocalypse forecasted by SEO geeks and The Google. And remember, mobile natural search traffic represents just a portion of overall legal webite traffic, so this blip doesn’t register meaningfully on anyone’s radar. Representatives from The Google assured us that the roll-out could take, a week, perhaps a week and a half to fully roll out so perhaps there’s more to be seen, but so far it looks like the only thing the Google mobile update has done is push a little more work to website developers.
In the graph below, the blue bars represent mobile friendly sites, the red ones, not-so-mobile-friendly.
