Google wants the web to be easier to view on mobile devices. To encourage web site owners to make their sites mobile-friendly, Google is now ranking mobile-unfriendly sites lower on mobile searches.

In other words, if you run a web site that fails to meet Google’s mobile-friendly requirements, that site will now appear lower down in Google’s search results, when the search is performed on a mobile device.

There’s no reason to panic, however. Mobile-friendliness is only one of numerous factors that determine where a site ranks in Google search results.