Design in my experience has nothing to with rankings. So I would say no.

Amazon ranks because it's amazon, not because of a responsive design.

Any site with a few lines of code can be "responsive."

If one is searching from a mobile device, I only heard a hint of
google putting some mobile sites up there. But people mistake
that and go ape over nothing.

Google does not say that Joe Blow with some responsive website
would ever get ahead of others just because of a responsive design.

Rankings aside, if you are not making your site mobile-friendly,
shame on you. You are leaving a lot of money on the table.

Mobile-friendly does not need to be responsive.

The best thing, is for your site to look good across the board, with
very little extra coding. And that's very, very easy.

You want as little extra coding as possible. You want all versions to
be fully crawled and indexed the same. Or, just one great version.
(More on that below)

When people start overdoing it, they get into trouble.

When I talk about hand coding sites in as basic of html as possible,
that's exactly what I mean. Your site's content should be readily
available no matter what you are using.

I would stop worrying about responsive, and start thinking "progressive
enhancement."

Funny, nobody seems to talk about that but me. People are
plug-in-wordpress-widgeting themselves into being almost
impossible for some mobile devices to even view them.

Paul

responsive web design and mobile usability now a search ranking factor.

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I think it will increase your ranking in mobile search.

There are in all more than 200 criteria through which Google Display Search Results.. and one of them is responsive Website Designing.. So yes if its not working correctly than it can affect your search results

I don't think so responsive design effect search ranking .

Don't know about rankings, but if you search for something using your mobile you'll notice "Mobile Friendly" next to websites in search results if those websites are responsive to different screen sizes. So i guess that is a signal that google use in their algorithm. How much impact it has i don't know, but it surely has some effect in mobile rankings in my opinion.

Looks like they are experimenting on this subject. They definitively penalize sites on mobile if they are not responsive.
And I would say they are going to implement rewards soon or they wouldn't invest time and money on mobile-friendly tests, guidelines, etc More info:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...dly-pages.html
https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...bile-friendly/

As a career website designer for more than 15 years, yes, responsive design/mobile friendly IS IMPORTANT for ranking. In today's mobile-centric world, Google is definitely favouring sites that work well on mobile devices.

Designing a site or using a design that is not mobile friendly, is useless and near suicidal on today's Web.

Design doesn't matter in SEO.because content is the important for this.if content is unique then SEO never effects bad.

Responsive design effects rankings for searches on touchscreen devices where a responsive design provides a better experience.

Its worthless for ask this question.because SEO never effects with website design,layout etc. only one thing important here is CONTENTS.

Here's a really good article about mobile friendly/responsive sites. It doesn't really cover the idea of a responsive design, but more about the issues of tweaking words that make the site usable for a mobile user.

Why Matt Cutts Is Wrong About Responsive Web Design

As for what you asked about whether or not a site's responsive design would affect SEO, I think it might if the site is hard to load. If Google can't access your site due to excess code/widgets or other that prevents them from being able to index that page, then the design/theme could be a fault for lower SERP.

In direct responsive desgin has nothing to do with your basic direct SEO. However, the need of all devices website(mobile / tablet ) version can bring extra points. Especially, searches from mobile devices can be improved. Google is now highlighting websites that are mobile ready.

Guys you are right in part, but I think the answer is actually YES!
But not directly, a website which is not responsive will have a higher bounce rate.

and if you have a high bounce rate you won't look good in the eyes of the big G.

So to answer your question, yes it will help with the rankings a bit.

Yes responsive sites are affect on ranking. Responsive sites are helpful to increase the ranking websites.

Google always motivates designers to build responsive design website as it provides good browsing experience to users. And, at last major goal of Google is to provide better experience to users. Simultaneously this good user experience helps your website to attain google keyword ranking. I would also like to share an article where you learn more benefits of responsive website: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/4...-design/92807/

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Design can't effects website seo.

It doesn't affect it now, but but but, will it in the future?

Responsive design effects on ranking factor. For mobile users responsive design matter, because it can automatically adjusts a page in a way that webmasters can retain their content on the same URL.

Yes on mobile devices it certainly does. We know that bounce rates and time on site are ranking factors and if these stats are poor on mobile devices you'll appear lower down on mobile results.

If you look on mobile SERPS there will also be something next to the meta description that says 'mobile friendly.' Its clear that Google are looking more at responsive sites.

Responsive design is not effect your ranking but most of users visit our website around 60% are mobile users. So if your site is not mobile responsive, How your design looking good.

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