Originally introduced to the digital marketing world in 2016, Google AMP has seen a lot of changes over the years. Whether you love it or hate it, you should probably know a thing or two about AMP if you’re in the search marketing space.
Google AMP (which stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages) is an HTML framework that allows publishers to create quick-loading copies of web pages for mobile.
It was the result of a general user shift towards mobile when it comes to navigating the internet. Currently, AMP can be used for websites, ads, emails, and even web stories, which aim to replicate the success of Instagram and Facebook Stories.
The Google AMP Viewer is one of the ways your site content can be displayed to users. In this case, your URL will be shown as a Google domain, but your own website domain will also be displayed at the top of the Viewer. This is the default setting for Google AMP pages.
The other way your site content can be displayed is through signed exchange. Signed exchange allows the browser to serve your web page as if it belongs to your domain. This means that it will display your domain in the URL field instead of a Google domain.
The purpose of Google AMP is to improve user experience, so you can bet it comes with some SEO implications. Here are some tips on how to successfully use Google AMP from an SEO perspective:
The short answer is no – AMP is never a must-have for mobile content, and the outcomes aren’t always worth the effort of implementing AMP on your site.
Following the June 2021 Google Page Experience Update, AMP is no longer essential for content to rank in the Top Stories SERP feature or Google News. Google also removed the AMP badge icon that indicated AMP content directly in the SERPs. Google will now give ranking incentive to pages that load fast instead of AMP pages. This eliminates a lot of the pressure web publishers previously felt to implement AMP if they wanted a shot at ranking on mobile.
💡 Learn more about the Google Page Experience Update from Seer.
Even though AMP is not a requirement to rank on Google, there are still benefits of using AMP that might make it worth your efforts. Here are a few examples:
In some cases, implementing Google AMP just isn’t worth it. Here’s why you should use caution when determining if AMP is the right choice for your site:
As Google and its algorithms evolve with time, it’s hard to say what the future of AMP will look like. It’s likely that this framework will remain a viable option for webmasters within the foreseeable future.
What we know for sure is that optimizing your site based on Google’s ranking factors is always going to be essential – whether you achieve that with or without AMP.
Source: www.seerinteractive.com, originally published on 2022-02-03 12:13:13
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