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Page Speed is #1 Ranking factor in mobile search - Google Speed Update

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Starting in July 2018, Google will finally use mobile page speed as a ranking in their mobile search results. Google today announced a new ranking algorithm designed for mobile search. The company is calling it the “Speed Update,” and it will only impact a small percentage of queries, Google reiterated to us. Only pages that “deliver the slowest experience to users” will be impacted by this update, the company says. The update goes live in July 2018, so webmasters have time to prepare their webpages. Google  recommends  you use the new  updated PageSpeed report  and tools like  LightHouse  to measure page speed and make improvements. Google’s Zhiheng Wang and Doantam Phan wrote: The “Speed Update,” as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. It applies the same standard to all pages, regardless of the technology used to build the page. The intent of the search query is still

How to generate Google Sitelinks for your website

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how to show sitelinks in google The links shown below some of Google's search results, called sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. Our systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they're looking for google sitelinks 1: The main search result 2: Sitelinks We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find useful sitelinks, or we don't feel that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them. At the moment, sitelinks are automated. We're always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future. There are best practices you can follow, however, to improve the quality of your sitelinks. For example, for your site's internal links, make sure you use