"Non Mobile Friendly" Google Emails / Warnings

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Hello!!!

We just started to hear about this and SEO is not our core (so maybe this is old news - but Google has emailed a few people we know basically telling them their sites are non-responsive or "mobile friendly" and that as a result it would do poorly in search results for searches performed from mobile devices.

What will happen to these old sites? will they be omitted from search? and how long do people have before no one will see them, since a major share of traffic now is mobile?

Did some searching, but didn't find much, hoping someone can point me towards what the "fall out" is, in regards to this Google action - any help would be appreciated!


Many thanks!

BSOC

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    Do you care about mobile traffic?

    Basically make the site/pages useful for your target traffic.
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    • Its worse than that. Google takes mobile usability into account for all rankings now. So getting a letter like this is bad. They only send this message if you have a big issue from what I've seen. OP needs to look into fixing this.
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    • Google recently announced about the update that will consider the mobile friendliness as an ranking factor, hence it is necessary to have a mobile friendly website.
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  • Google did not release an official statement on how exactly sites which are non-mobile friendly will be penalized, but from the severity Google mentioned in the article, you can be pretty dang sure you'll get smacked harder (at least for mobile search results) than Panda and Penguin and Hummingbird hit. Pretty dang sure.
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    • Because they are not going to be penalized. It is going to be incorporated as a ranking factor just like title tags, links, page speed, etc.

      A site without links does not get penalized. It just probably will not rank as well.

      Nothing they have said indicates this is going to be a filter like Penguin.
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  • Every website on this planet should be mobile friendly.
    Google is number 1 SE in the world. It's dictating its terms.
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    "Non Mobile Friendly" Google Emails / Warnings

    Hello!!! We just started to hear about this and SEO is not our core (so maybe this is old news - but Google has emailed a few people we know basically telling them their sites are non-responsive or "mobile friendly" and that as a result it would do poorly in search results for searches performed from mobile devices.