Back in September 2015 Google declared that it was experimenting with a mobile only index in order to address a number of ranking signal issues for mobile.

One year on and a recent announcement from the search giant discussing a full split seems to suggest we could see an official launch sometime in 2017.

Michael Hayden, SEO Lead at Stickyeyes takes a closer look.

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