A few weeks back Tina shared a detailed guide on SEO benefits of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). Needless to say, it’s important for us to have AMP enabled for our blog as with time it’s getting more traction & gives a better user experience.
Currently, AMP is not a mobile ranking factor, but it would be wrong to consider this as the only deciding factor for enabling AMP. We have already covered the major benefits of AMP earlier in this post.
On 13th October 2016 Google officially announced the addition of new AMP testing tool in search console.
How to use Google’s AMP testing tool?
To use the tool, you can head over to testing tool here & add any of the pages from your blog to analyze the AMP page with the real Googlebot. The tool tests the validity of the AMP markup as well as any structured data on the page. You can use this tool on your smartphone browser as well.
This tool will make it easier for us to find the common AMP error on our web page & also help in seeing the code that is causing the AMP Errors. Do notice the share button at bottom right. You can use this to share a link to the result page with your team or developer.
For valid AMP pages, this tool will also provide a link to live preview of how a page may appear in Google’s search results. Here is an example of such preview:
WordPress users can use an official plugin “AMP” to enable Accelerated mobile pages for their WordPress based website or blogs. If you are using Yoast SEO plugin, then you should also use Glue for Yoast + AMP plugin.
Two brothers from Hyderabad are also actively developing & maintaining AMP Toolbox plugin; that helps you to monetize your AMP version of the site. Here is a video that helps you to enable AMP for your WordPress blog.
Well, I’m yet to find & fix all the AMP related errors for my blog. I would like to hear if you were able to enable AMP for your blog? How’s your experience so far & is it helping you to drive more traffic?
Do share this post on Facebook & Twitter to let your friends know about this new & official AMP testing tool.
For further reading:
- The Mega Guide To Configure Facebook Instant Articles for WordPress
- How To Add Advertisements To Facebook Instant Articles
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This is a nice concept, moving towards a faster mobile web altogether. It will be more interesting to see the e-commerce sites adapting to AMP.
Thanks Harsh for sharing this vital information. 🙂
Thank you Harsh for sharing this nice information. Which plugin you are using and why?
Thanks Harsh! It seems that I still have lots of adjustments to make…
Thanks Dude !✌ Awesome tool must used by Every website owner…
Thank you so much for this information. I have installed plugins and enabled AMP for my blog . It has few errors to be fixed. But AMP page was looking so basic WordPress page . Can you please share a video tutorial to customize the AMP page. It would be great helpful to everyone I guess . 😊 😊
thnku bro for this now we know more about our webste
thnks harsh! this tool wil help us a lot surely
Is there anyway AMP can be used for blogger based websites? Please advice.
Also may I great content.
Ya. of course Amp Pages can be easily added your blog pages. AMP can be frequently used for blog & news site.
Just started reading more about AMP after seeing your post. I did not read the other one that Tine shared but will go through with that now.
You said you are working on fixing AMP related errors for your blog so can you give some idea – what kind of errors you are facing? I’m more interested knowing whether a non-technical person can find and fix those errors?
Waiting to see more post related to this topic.
Thanks for sharing this information, Harsh!
Nice article bro.. very helpful, a small query – having a dedicated mobile site is required for ranking high on mobile google search. I am having this query because I am receiving good amount of traffic from mobile users so to improve the traffic is it needed to have a mobile dedicated design or a responsive theme would be suffice.
Thanks in advance for the answer.
Thanks Harsh to share this actually i don’t about AMP much bez i learn today on your blog let do some more research about this.
AMP seems buzzword nowadays. Thanks Harsh for useful info.
Just implemented AMP on my blog by using the plugin mentioned by you….. Thanks
Thanks, Harsh. I Need Such Type of Great Articles for This AMP Testing Tools. You make my day.
Thanks harsh for so vital imformation about AMP testing and tools.What to do for ads placement in AMP Pages?
i dint know about this AMP tool before. thanks harsh, m still waiting for your post on how to resolve the errors.
Thanks for sharing great amp plugin its really awesome tools can you tell its necessary to use Glue for Yoast plugin for AMP toolbox plugin you can share this video.
Hey,
Article was pretty short but interesting.
I am eager to know about Amp but i have an issue.
Recently, I have install both plugins and start looking for some results. There is a huge increment in loading speed but i found some very critical errors in search console.
Please let me know what should I do.
Please give suggestions.
Thank you..
Hi Harsh,
A very timely one I have done some time back and its the need of the hour as a majority of our readers checks our pages with their mobiles. So it is essential to go for AMP.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Keep sharing.
Best
~ Philip