Category text not present in mobile version

[Reprise]

Hey guys!

I am looking into a site that has multiple category pages. These have descriptions that include relevant KWs. However, the text appears only on the desktop version, not on mobile. If I inspect the page, I still see the text's html tags. The site has been indexed by the smartphone google bot. Is there a chance the text's KWs are being detected by Google?

I would think adding the text is the ideal route, but I´d like to see what you think.

Thanks!

[willcritchlow]

You're right that the best plan is likely to look at adding that content onto the mobile versions of the category page (though it's worth rolling out slowly and carefully if you can't split test because we have seen it be good or bad in different circumstances - see this whiteboard Friday for example).

In theory, with mobile-first indexing, Google will be crawling your site with a mobile user agent, and so as long as you are treating googlebot the same as you treat other similar user agents, it should see the page exactly as you do when you visit with a mobile browser (or emulate mobile using chrome for example).

There are various ways to check different parts of this:

1. Check what is actually indexed - by viewing the cached version of the page and / or searching for unique text that only appears on a specific category page "in quotes"
2. Check what google sees using the URL inspection tool in search console and selecting "view crawled page"

Good luck - I hope that helps.