Google introduced that its mobile-first indexing “trek” is now “full.” Which is unusual to me being that Google stated it was finished shifting websites to mobile-first indexing final Could however hey, now it’s actually finished and it solely took just below seven-years to finish.

John Mueller, Search Advocate, and Nir Kalush, Search Console wrote, “It has been a protracted highway, getting from there to right here. We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Cell First Indexing is now full.”

Additionally, with this announcement, Google is eradicating the indexing crawler data within the settings web page in Search Console. That’s the part within the about field that tells you whenever you converted to mobile-first indexing, over right here:

I ought to observe, that there was a bug with the indexing crawler standing for some websites the place it at the moment exhibits a website being listed utilizing the desktop crawler when it’s being listed utilizing the cell crawler. I suppose there isn’t any want for Google to repair that bug if they are going to take away that function. However as I stated in that authentic story, most will not actually know in the event that they converted to mobile-first indexing (simply assume you probably did I suppose).

Google additionally stated:

• A “very small set of websites” don’t work in any respect on cell gadgets.
• These websites merely do not load in any respect on cell gadgets
• Google cannot do something to get them to be listed by mobile-first indexing
• Google will proceed to attempt to crawl these websites with its legacy desktop Googlebot crawler
• Google will re-evaluate the listing a number of occasions a yr
• Google will cut back crawling with its legacy desktop Googlebot as a lot as doable

In November 2022, John stated the final batch of mobile-indexing is coming quickly. Earlier than that, he stated that the final batch could be in July 2022 however then in August stated they weren’t finished. As a reminder, Google began its mobile-first indexing initiative over six years in the past, in November 2016. However we nonetheless have websites which are being migrated over from Google desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing on the finish of 2022.

Sure, final November, Google eliminated any deadline they’d for the necessary mobile-first indexing switchover. As a reminder, in Could 2021, we reported that cell first indexing change was not finished but after which in March we reported that Google was going emigrate over the final batch of websites to cell first indexing quickly. This was after shifting the mobile-first indexing deadline from September 2020 to March 2021.

Earlier this yr, John Mueller of Google stated that the method could be finished within the coming months. After which in Could, Google stated that was the final batch however possibly it wasn’t?

I requested John about that, and he stated, “I assumed it could be good to do an official weblog submit & to say the SC modifications.”

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