Responsive Design as a Ranking Factor - "Mobile Friendly" Tag Added

In past many times google ask the web masters to make responsive and mobile responsive design of there websites. But now Google have openly said and include the Mobile Friendly design as a google ranking factor. Google adds Mobile Friendly design as a Google ranking factor and also adding Mobile Friendly Tag in search results.

Responsive and Mobile Friendly design as an Ranking factor

So, now those who don't have responsive web design should have to pay attention on there design along with other ranking factors such as content and backlinks. In Google's Official Blog two days later google introduced that they are going to add responsive web design as ranking signal.

In my personal experience, I recently changed my blog's theme and the new theme is completely responsive for all types of screens. And I observed that after changing the theme there is an rise in ranking positions in google search result. This means that google start ranking the pages on the basis of responsive and mobile friendly design.
So you have to make your site responsive in design and for this following post will help you:

1. How to make Mobile Resposnive design

Mobile Friendly Tag added To search results

Along with responsive web design as ranking factor google also going to add Mobile Friendly tag in the search results with sites. This step is taken to help the users to find the content which they needed. So, the user which is on mobile device when search from google can easily determine the website which is friendly for it's device. And the user will also click on the result only which is responsive.

The reason is that users don't have enough time to scroll horizontally and to zoom the page to get what they want. 

How can You get Mobile Friendly Tag on your site

Google is going to add the new tag "Mobile Friendly" on sites in search result which are responsive in design. The google said that the process of adding mobile friendly tag is automated or by Bots. The bots go to site and determine the page with different screen sizes if he finds it responsive it will add mobile friendly tag on site otherwise move to other.

But Along with it Google also recommend some things by which we can make bots to give us that tag. And these are:

Avoid Software or Flash

The first thing you have to do is change the flash or other content which is not common in mobile devices to text and other sources by which mobile users can easily access them.

Readable Text

Use good and easily understandable fonts in your text. You also have to pay attention on font-sizes. Make the text bigger enough that it can easily readable on mobile devices without zooming. And users can easily understand that what you write.

Responsive Layout

You have to make the layout of your site a responsive and mobile friendly. The content should be fit on the screen of devices that the users don't have to scroll from left to right. So, make the layout of the site responsive so that it can easily fit on every screen size.

Reachable Links

When it comes to links you have to place the links far apart enough you that the user can easily reach to it for tap. If the links are very closely placed then there are chances of wrong tap. So, you have to distinguish the links from each other so the users can easily reach to them.

How can you check your responsive design

Now the after doing all now you have to take a look on your site weather it is meeting with all the criteria defined by google or not. It is very hard for anyone to separately check there site by opening there site on every single device. So, for the ease there are some tools by which we can check the responsiveness of design. For this goto the link: Responsive testing tools. 

You can also test your site by using the official responsive testing tool of google.

How much time after I Google start adding Mobile Friendly tag?

The google said that they start adding this tag in some coming few weeks and those sites can only get that tag which will meets completely with there criteria for mobile friendly tag.

Here is the my site's result for responsive design using google mobile friendly test tool