V14 mobile friendly or not

[EdHarrison]

I have tested my site with googles mobile test and all seems well but my homepage shows as not mobile friendly on a Google search...driving me mad...any ideas please

EDIT - it seems from what I can gather so far increasing best sellers to 20 from 16 is causing this - odd!

[chickenhouseman]

I think your logo is too large. There is the compression and caching options that will help as well.

it can't be viewed without scrolling sideways.

[MDN]

Your css for responsive in the (max-width: 685px) uses the following:

.header-area .logo img {
float: none;
display: block;
width: auto;
margin: 0 auto;
}

change the width element to be 100%:

.header-area .logo img {
float: none;
display: block;
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
}

That fixes the scrolling issue and should fix the error.

[EdHarrison]

Thank you...do you know which part of the stylesheet to search?

[meden]

Just CTRL + F when in the stylesheet for .

header-area .logo img 

that should put you in the vicinity...

[EdHarrison]

Uploading now - will check it - thank you

[chickenhouseman]

just another question ed, have you changed your compression settings in htaccess? I too have sellerdeck hosting and have noticed the compression that was there and working now isn't. They have recently upgraded their sever so I'm wondering if there is a problem with compression not being set up.

[EdHarrison]

Hi,
I am playing around a bit with htaccess, removed the compression as I have someone trying to implement the removal of acatalog, proving a bit tricky as I have https redirect already there in the file.

I have been loyal with this software since 2009 - seeing other platforms race ahead in SEO and usability has me very tempted to jump now, I have half the daily hits I had 5 years ago!

[chickenhouseman]

I've been using it for around the same time. One thing I've noticed is that in my business I vary sell single items any longer. I think many single item purchases end up with amazon as it's so easy and you will always find what you want at a good price. It's not until you buy several items that it starts to get cheap then the independent website pick up. I guess this might have a big impact on you. i hate Amazon, but still use it

have your rankings suffered or is it just traffic?

I don't find sellerdeck is too bad seo wise. There are a few little tweaks that you can add but most of it is there. I've started using seobility.net over the last few weeks - it seems good at picking up the seo problems - the free version works quite well but only crawls the site once a week - i've attached a report for you...

[EdHarrison]

Brilliant report thank you - but scary...

My homepage ranks well - some historic products to, mainly it seems products added since about 2011/12 have ranked poorly.

[chickenhouseman]

It could be a duplicate content problem - some of your descriptions are manufacturers descriptions so appear elsewhere on the web. Generally, first to be indexed gets the top spot - you have much less chance to be at the top if another site has the same text indexed before you.

[EdHarrison]

I try to do unique descriptions where possible, I think the main structure of tags / titles descriptions needs attention.