Now more than ever, businesses are focusing on creating delightful mobile website experiences. After all, 80% of Internet users are using smartphones to search online.

What’s more, marketers are gearing up for a big change Google plans to make to their algorithm.  Google wrote in their official blog that they will be “expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal,” and their update should have a significant effect on marketers.

When Google makes this change, it will have a bigger impact than Panda or Penguin. To put that in context, their Panda update impacted only about 12% of queries, and Penguin affected about 4% of mobile and desktop queries.

In other words, if you haven’t been focusing on improving your mobile experience, you’d better prioritize it now, or your search ranking might suffer. According to a Search Engine Land article about the update, there will be “no degrees of mobile friendliness” — your…