Google's Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won't Hurt Your SEO

With mobile traffic gaining more market share over the past few years, it's more important than ever for websites to have a mobile version of their webpage, a specific version tailored to smaller screens and fast load time. And with it has come a wider adoption of using responsive design for mobile users versus the traditional mobile sites.

In the eyes of Google, does response design or traditional mobile design leverage a higher SEO value? Fortunately, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts tackled this issue in a recent webmaster help video.

Responsive Design vs. a Mobile Site

First, a lot of people have questions about what exactly is a responsive design. It is definitely something that's newer, and many webmasters still don't have a lot of experience designing with it. However, responsive design quickly becoming the go-to format and is gaining exponential popularity because of the way it scales for any type of screen size, whether it's a desktop or an iPhone.

"Responsive design just means that the page works totally fine whether you access for site URL with a desktop browser or whether you access that URL with mobile browser," Cutts said. "Things will rescale, the page size will be taken into account."

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