What is Responsive design?

Answered across 6 episodes of The Best SEO Podcast

The short answer

A website design approach that adapts layout across screen sizes. The episode notes it eliminates duplicate content issues but warns that default bootstrap responsive setups may not work correctly for mobile conversions without custom styling.

How experts on the show define it

A website design approach that adapts layout across screen sizes. The episode notes it eliminates duplicate content issues but warns that default bootstrap responsive setups may not work correctly for mobile conversions without custom styling.

From New Website SEO Production Tips - #SEOpodcast 251

A web design approach that adapts a site's layout to different screen sizes; the hosts recommend prioritizing it for mobile phone portrait orientation rather than for tablets or desktops.

From Tips to Enhance Mobile Search Interaction - #seopodcast 213

A website build that ensures content, images, and videos are accessible and rendered correctly across mobile devices, tablets, and desktops.

From Online Marketing Strategies for 2015 - #SEOpodcast 262

A web design approach where the layout adjusts to fit the screen size of any device; the hosts note it can cause pages to lose focus on mobile by squishing content into a very long page.

From Tips for Landing Pages - Internet Marketing Podcast Number 196

A single website that adapts its layout via a style sheet for different screen sizes, avoiding the duplicate content risk of separate mobile and desktop sites.

From Increasing SEO Visibility - #SEOpodcast 249

Building one website that adapts its layout across screen sizes rather than maintaining a separate mobile site. The hosts recommend a single design for screens above seven and a half inches and a modified layout for smaller devices.

From Do It Yourself with Online Marketing - #SEOpodcast 248

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