The speed of mobile pages isn’t currently used as a ranking factor by Google, but that will change with the next mobile friendly update .  At the Search Marketing Summit in Sydney today, and reported by Jennifer Slegg , Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes confirmed that page speed would be a factor in the next mobile update. Illyes wouldn’t be pinned down to a date, but it seems we’re looking at a matter of months. Google has only recently updated its mobile algorithm, but there’s more to come

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At the Search Marketing Summit in Sydney today, Gary Illyes from Google has been reported as saying that page speed ranking factors for mobile, will be mobile specific, in the upcoming months…

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The speed of your mobile pages currently doesn’t impact your mobile rankings, but soon it may, says Gary Illyes of Google. The post Google says page speed ranking factor to use mobile page speed for mobile sites in upcoming months appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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