Anyone seeing changes in mobile search results or mobile traffic? Apparently it’s gonna take a few weeks to roll out completely, but I’m seeing one change so far in the search term [bareback porn]. Here are the desktop resultsâ¦
And here are the mobile resultsâ¦
Notice that because XVideos isn’t mobile friendly it went from two slots in the desktop results to just one in the mobile results. But instead of moving everyone else up one, Pornhub was given two slots on mobile instead of one.
So that means sites don’t fall out of the mobile results completely if they’re not mobile friendly, but you do lose exposure - at least so far.
So far I can’t see any significant changes in my mobile traffic. Probably because most of our competitors are mobile-friendly.
[QUOTE=OldSchool;158582]Here’s a desktop shot on G from my neck of the woods.
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Sorry, no mobile.[/QUOTE]
That’s pretty much the same as my desktop shot, right?
BTW, the way to get the mobile version on desktop is to use Safari, turn on the developer tools in preferences (if they’re not already on), and under the Develop menu you can change to one of several mobile user agent strings.
[QUOTE=rawTOP;158585]That’s pretty much the same as my desktop shot, right?
BTW, the way to get the mobile version on desktop is to use Safari, turn on the developer tools in preferences (if they’re not already on), and under the Develop menu you can change to one of several mobile user agent strings.[/QUOTE]
Yes sir, pretty much the same. 1 slot up or down usually. Thanks for the tip!
I haven’t seen any noticeable difference either. so far it’s just been a bunch of Mobilebullshit… I was really looking forward a spike in traffic. UGH…
Yes I wonder if it makes much of a difference unless you score high on the big terms which most of us never will do. Then again it might cascade down.
Just find it depressing to see those terms and the same sites dominate even if they are not the best match.
Even more depressing considering ive had 3 or more emails this week alone wanting to buy links to some of those sites on the big terms. The big sites dominate despite going against major google guidelines.
[QUOTE=rawTOP;158573]Anyone seeing changes in mobile search results or mobile traffic? Apparently it’s gonna take a few weeks to roll out completely, but I’m seeing one change so far in the search term [bareback porn]. Here are the desktop resultsâ¦
And here are the mobile resultsâ¦
Notice that because XVideos isn’t mobile friendly it went from two slots in the desktop results to just one in the mobile results. But instead of moving everyone else up one, Pornhub was given two slots on mobile instead of one.
So that means sites don’t fall out of the mobile results completely if they’re not mobile friendly, but you do lose exposure - at least so far.
So far I can’t see any significant changes in my mobile traffic. Probably because most of our competitors are mobile-friendly.[/QUOTE]
Results are Exactly the Same in the UK… Which is strange there is usually a little variance between US/UK… pages 2/3/4/5/6 might show some differences although…
So now that the dust has settled a bit⦠There now seems to be almost zero change. In the example below for [bareback porn] xHamster (which is mobile friendly) does edge out xVideos (which isn’t), but xVideos is back to having both of it’s listings - not the one it had been reduced to a few days ago.
And things didn’t change much for [gay porn] either⦠In fact, on that SERP a non-mobile friendly page edged out a mobile friendly page.
So it seems, for porn, Mobilegeddon was a bunch of hot air.
That said, I do see hints of change. Mobile traffic from Google to my tube site (that only went mobile friendly the day before Mobilegeddon) dipped for a few days until Google figured out the site was indeed mobile-friendly and now it’s back up. But I need to see more data to be convinced of the trend.
And my forum site, which has been mobile-friendly for months, seems to be getting more traffic from Google. In fact, mobile traffic from Goggle is getting closer and closer to desktop traffic from Google.
But my blog, which has been mobile-friendly for a bit over a month, has seen very little change in mobile traffic. It looks like the mobile and desktop lines are slightly closer, but just slightly. Perhaps that’s because its direct competitors (other blogs) are also generally mobile-friendly since it’s easier to get a blog to be mobile friendly than it is to get a forum to be mobile friendly.
So it seems there are some changes for some sites, but ranking on many of the major search terms remains largely unchanged. I know Google has said that if the content on the page is highly desirable to surfers that they’ll continue to show the page in the SERPs anyway. By “highly desirable” I think they’re talking about major brands with lots of existing traffic (e.g. XVideos). So basically, if you’re small you better become mobile-friendly, but if you’re a major brand it’s optional.
Thanks for that feedback, I’ve not seen much change myself either. Two of my sites are still not mobile friendly while the rest are… and looking at all of them there isn’t any noticeable difference between them.
Could these changes maybe not be very gradual though? Plus it only affects mobile searches, does that include tablets? If not, it’s maybe fairly low search volumes that’s affected.
Right, people are saying Mobilegeddon wasn’t as big as they were led to believeâ¦
We were expecting this update to have a “significant” impact on the mobile results as Google initially announced. More so than Penguin or Panda, we were told. But right now, we don’t fully see it.
For the first time (that I’ve noticed), Google has sent more mobile traffic to one of my sties (the forum site) than it sent desktop trafficâ¦
So mobile is definitely the future. And it looks like I am benefitting from Mobilegeddon. You can see in that graph how mobile traffic has gone up slightly since Google changed the algorithm.
Overall, however, mobile still has a little ways to go before it overtakes desktop.
Still, 5 years ago you wouldn’t have guessed mobile would overtake desktop. Now it’s just a matter of time.
My only question about all this hype and importance on mobile phones and traffic is this:
Does it equate to sales and actually putting that much more money in the bank for us?
I see mobile traffic as the younger generation “with good eyesight” needed to watch porn on a small screen. Mostly the free loading guys watching porn while jerking off in bed before going to sleep or when bored and get a stiffy. Most of these guys being the ones that “will never pay for porn.” At least not for years to come when they can afford a decent laptop or desktop and appreciate watching on a bigger screen.
I just don’t see enough “buying” traffic coming from mobile phones to “jump on the mobile band wagon” at this time or start waving flags around in the air and thinking it’s “all that.”
Perhaps for “readers” on blogs with erotic stories, fine. Actually buying a membership to a paysite, not all that much.
Sorry to sound like a “Party Pooper” but it’s just my own opinion and one of an old fart that doesn’t own a mobile phone. My fingers are too damn big to text on them and nobody seems to like just simply “talking” on a phone now-a-days. I’m much like those old rotary phones I suppose… just a relic of years gone by.
It’s hard to say for sure, but I suspect it does convert to sales. For starters, people don’t just use one device. If their first impression of your brand is on a mobile device and your site sucks on mobile, they’re less likely to come back on their computer and buy. And the other thing is that some people are going to mobile devices as their only personal computer. Analysts say this will become pretty normal in the not-too-distant future. If those people buy porn at all it will have to be on mobile.
I’m still not seeing any difference at all, same amount of mobile and desktop traffic as before the change. But I’ve been mobile friendly for over a year before that deadline.
