Google's Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won't Hurt Your SEO

Hi everybody,

Today we are going to discuss about Responsive  Web Design.So lets move on to the text version of Matt cutts.

With mobile traffic gaining more market share over the past  years, it's very important than ever for websites to have a mobile version of their webpage, a very similar version changed to smaller screens and fast load time. And with it has come a wider acceptance of using responsive design for mobile users versus the traditional mobile sites.

So,does Response design or conventional mobile design leverage a higher SEO value?

So based upon the above figure,you might guess what exactly is Responsive Web Design.

Responsive Design vs. a Mobile Site

Matt cutts said,

"Responsive design just means that the page works completely fine whether you access for site URL with a desktop browser or whether you access that URL with mobile browser"

The 2nd common mobile design is just a lightweight version of the site, they can be easily read on small mobile screens but without a lot of the elements on a page that take longer to load.

"Another method to do it is depending on the user agent that's coming you would do a forward, so that a mobile phone, a mobile smartphone, might get redirected to a mobile-dot version of your page," Cutts said.

Cutts said that both ways of doing it are correct ways of dealing with mobile traffic, and that they have a lot of help documents available to webmasters to ensure they are doing everything correctly, particularly ensuring rel=canonical is being used for mobile versions of websites.

 Matt Cutts: Responsive Design is the Smart Pick

For SEO value, he states responsive design is the smarter way to go for SEO, primarily because you can accept issues if creating a adaptable adaptation of the page if you aren't implementing it correctly.

Very Important Note to all Web Designers

"In general, Said he wouldn't anguish about a website that is  using responsive design losing SEO benefits   because by analogue you've got the aforementioned(same) URL,"  Matt Cutts said. "So in theory, if you do a mobile version of the site , if you don't handle that able-bodied and you don't do the rel=canonical and all those sorts of things, again you might, in theory, bisect the PageRank amid those two pages. But if you accept acknowledging architecture again aggregate is handled from one URL, so the PageRank doesn't get divided, aggregate works fine."

 Bottom Line

There are fewer SEO drawbacks when using responsive design versus a lightweight mobile version of the website, but a mobile site can work just as well as a responsive design, as long as the webmaster utilizes the mobile tools available to them from Google, to ensure there aren't any SEO problems such as split PageRank or duplicate content issues.


For More information., kindly visit his youtube video below,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D03wRb4s7MU


Thank you all!