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Hello seo gurus!  I would appreciate your knowledge on something thata been bothering me for a while now and cant find the solution.Hello seo gurus! I would appreciate your knowledge on something thata been bothering me for a while now and cant find the solution. Some of my pages are shown on serp as not mobile friendly but when i do the mobile friendly test the page checks out as mobile friendly. i have messed with the robots. txt to allow everything to be sure and the problem is still there. if there isnt a fix for that, then is that something that can hurt my seo?  

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If you are running ads they may be the problem.  

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@narcotize yes i am running ads, so i shouldnt be concerned about that?  

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@stuffed Well, I wouldn't say that but without knowing anything more I don't know if that's your problem. For us when the ads cause these kinds of warnings they are no longer displaying by the time we look.  

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I see these in serp unfortunately, so i am trying to find out why, cause my pages are mobile friendly

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Is this for a gaming related site? If you don't want to share the URL here you're welcome to send it via private message. I'll give you a free opinion. I may not see the message for a while as I don't use Facebook messenger and sometimes forget to check for messages.  

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No its an orthopedics eshop i sent you pm

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https://www.seroundtable.com/google...rming

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@narcotize thank you for your time and insights! I searched in serps and most of my pages have lost the warning maybe due to a change in robots. txt i did a while ago. one or two pages i have seen the warning persisting, but those are pages with a redirection, so maybe its about the speed as you told me! One final question that could help though it would be, what could we block in robots. txt in simiral situations, to save bandwidth and not block anything vital from google!?  

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@stuffed I don't think you should block anything required for rendering. You should use server-side directives to keep crawlers out of empty directories.