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Illyes dropped his first mobile index announcement at Pubcon, there's been a lot of theory, guesswork, rampant speculation, panic and confusion about what exactly that means. Will targeted email list desktop users get mobile sites? Will sites without the Mobile Friendly designation suffer? Do we need to change all of our canonical tags? How will Google deal with the reduced token corpus? What the heck are tokens and a corpus? Google said it's still figuring out exactly how to handle some issues, but that's probably not comforting for many businesses that rely on Google traffic to pay their bills.
Google might handle them, and what exactly some of these things mean. At the very least, I'll add to the theory, guesswork, rampant speculation, and panic. Advertising Continue reading below In the spirit of TAGE (it's TAGFEE minus the fun and empathy), I should reveal that not only I (and a few others) shared a meal with Gary on the day of this announcement and I was lucky to voice our concerns, but we also met him again after that and had several long discussions about these issues on Twitter.