As the rate of people using mobile devices to browse the Internet grows, Google has been making changes to their mobile search experience so that it better suits the needs of mobile users. On February 26th Google they took that experience to a whole new level.

In an announcement posted on Google’s official blog, Webmaster Central, Google announced that starting April 21st they will be officially considering the mobile friendliness of a website as an integral part of their ranking algorithm for mobile search results. They go on to say “This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results.”

They do not specify if this will have an effect on desktop rankings, but there is widespread speculation that Google will be considering mobile-friendliness for their desktop ranking very soon, if they do not already.