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title: "What is mobile-first indexing?"  
description: "What is mobile-first indexing?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2020-11-30  
updated: 2020-11-30  
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category: "negative seo"  
tags: ["seo"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is mobile-first indexing?

What is [mobile](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/310668/reasons-why-you-should-choose-custom-mobile-app-development-for-your-business)-first [indexing](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/303693/how-search-engines-work-crawling-indexing-and-ranking)?

## Replies

### Reply by Anshu Dwivedi

Mobile-first indexing is exactly what it sounds like. It just means that the mobile version of your website becomes the starting point for what Google includes in their index, and the baseline for how they determine rankings


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