Do you know that more than 50% searches on Google happen from Mobile Devices? In a recent report, it was found that mobile searches exceed desktop searches by an extra 28 billion.
This shows that more mobile users are using Google than the desktop users. With the increasing number of Mobile phone users all over the world, it has become important to optimize your website to generate more search traffic from mobile devices.
Here are the 5 Easy Tips by which you can boost your organic search traffic in 2018.
Tip #1 – Create a Responsive Design
One of the primary things to optimize your website for organic search traffic is to create a responsive design.
When Google declared that it will focus more on mobile-friendly websites, people started to build a separate mobile version which used to be quite different from its desktop counterpart.
But let me ask you this! Would you like to go through the pain of managing two different designs for your website? I guess not.
Wouldn’t it be great if you have one design of your website that works for different screen sizes? It will keep things really simple, right?
Comes into the play the responsive designs, which automatically adjusts to the screen size be it mobile, tablet, desktop or laptop and still keep it easy to read and understand.
Tip #2 – Make sure Website loads Super Fast
No matter if your visitors are on an LTE supportable device or on 4G connection, there will always be a possibility that they could end up in a place where they won’t be having good reception of internet speed.
No one likes to wait for the web pages or web apps to take a longer time to load. It is necessary for you to not only have a mobile compatible site but a real fast website as well.
Imagine, someone searched you on Google, they clicked to visit your website, but it is taking too long to load your landing page. What will you do? You won’t wait and simply click the back button.
If too many people start to click the back button, Google will be notified that they don’t like your website for whatever reason. Trust me! You don’t want to look bad when it comes to your presence on Google.
A faster website will not only reduce the bounce rate but will create a better experience for the visitor which will help you boost your overall search traffic.
Tip #3 – Leverage Google AMP framework
Using Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) framework goes hand in hand with making your website fast for mobile devices.
As the name suggests, the AMP framework let your website become super fast and mobile-user friendly, so whenever someone will search on mobile devices the top results will always be AMP-enabled.
AMP frameworks ensure that the text on your website it readable to mobile users by making your website stripped of a lot of things like ads and excessive JavaScript.
This just doesn’t make your website light for mobile, but also drive more organic traffic from mobile searches as Google prioritize the AMP-friendly websites in the search results.
You may not see much impact of AMP from the developed countries where people are already using high-end fast devices, but from places where internet speed is not that fast or the people don’t use fast smartphones, you will see a significant increase in the mobile traffic.
Tip #4 – Keep Header image small
You definitely don’t want your visitors to continuously scroll and scroll to ultimately reach to the content they are looking for.
As mobile devices don’t have that much of a big screen, it’s better to keep your header image small. Also, make sure that your content is readable in terms of font size and font color.
What people can read easily, generates a better user experience.
Also, avoid putting pop-ups on mobile devices. If the whole mobile screen gets covered with crazy pop-ups, the visitors will more likely to exit from your website without even looking further.
Now you don’t want to irritate your visitors as too many pop-ups on mobile devices provide a poor user experience. A bad user experience increases the bounce rate, decrease the time on site, ultimately plummeting your ranking on Google.
Tip #5 – Keep Mobile-First Index in Mind
With Google’s mobile-first index in effect, you have to make sure that you are showing them everything.
This is a common malpractice among many mobile websites that they show some of the content, and then ask the visitor to click load more for more content, which increases the load time of the website.
This way, they are not showing Google all the content and hence, their rankings are not going to improve.
You need to make sure that everything on your website, not just the text, is visible to Google. You need to let the Google bots crawl HTML, CSS or any other style sheets that you have implemented on your website.
That way, Google will be aware of the complete architecture of your mobile site and can rank you based on that.
Conclusion
SEO is a vast process in its own. There are a lot of different strategies that you can follow to increase the rank of your website on Google. What may work for you, may not work for others.
It is always best to try different strategies and see which one gives the best results. The above-mentioned hacks are easy to follow as they do not require much of the back-end work.
Following them or incorporating them with any other SEO strategy will surely let you make your mark on the Google search engine.
About the Author:
Ashish Sharma is the Chief Marketing Officer at WeDigTech, a Mobile App Development Company. He is responsible for marketing activities that have to do with creating, communicating and delivering offerings that have value for clients or business partners.
