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Making sure your website is optimised for mobile devices is extremely important. Not only from a user perspective but also from a search engine optimisation perspective. Probably like me, I spend most of my working day in front of a desktop or laptop computer, but when I am away from the office my mobile phone is my connection to the internet.

People are used to viewing mobile-friendly websites. In simple terms, this is known as responsive website design. You can do a simple check on your website using the Google Mobile-Friendly testing tool: https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly

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Here is the result for my website:https://www.dcpweb.co.uk

Run a mobile-friendly test on your website and check you get the good old green text “Page is mobile-friendly”. If you see that then happy days! If not contact your website designers and ask them to get that fixed ASAP.

When building a responsive website you should also consider how content is laid out for different devices. In most cases, the content for displaying on a mobile device should stack in the same sequence as the desktop version. This will help to see upload times and ensure a seamless user experience between different browsing devices.

17. Optimise images and alt tags

Every image on a website page should contain an Alt Tag. Think of the alt tag as a shortwritten description of an image.

The Alt tag serves two different purposes. First, an image Alt tag can be used to optimise a page for search engines.

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