Mobilegeddon was the informal name given to Google’s April 2015 mobile-friendly ranking update, which significantly boosted the mobile search rankings of responsive, mobile-optimized websites while penalizing sites that weren’t properly optimized for mobile devices.
This update was one of the clearest early signals of Google’s growing prioritization of mobile user experience, foreshadowing the later, more comprehensive shift to mobile-first indexing.
Businesses that hadn’t yet adopted responsive or mobile-friendly design at the time saw significant, sometimes dramatic, ranking drops specifically on mobile search results following this update.
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