Google has brought AMP Stories support to WordPress publishers via its latest AMP plugin update. If you're a publisher and you want to create AMP Stories, you will need to make sure you have the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin installed since the Stories editor replies on features not included in core versions of WordPress. By [...]
Last week on April 11, Google announced that AMP will support custom JavaScript. The AMP Project team posted, “With ‘amp-script’, custom #JS can operate within AMP Documents,” and included a video showing it in practice. https://twitter.com/AMPhtml/status/1116378847937613824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1116378847937613824&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearchengineland.com%2Famp-to-supports-custom-javascript-with-amp-script-315293 This is a teaser of what is to be announced at the upcoming AMP conference in Tokyo, Japan on April [...]
In an announcement made by Google, both of the company's AMP and mobile-friendly test tools are now able to support the ability to edit and rerun the test, live. If you want to make any changes in the code editor to see how it'll impact the AMP and/or mobile-friendly test, it's possible to do it now. Some [...]
It's now possible for advertisers to see the loading speeds of more mobile landing pages due to an algorithm update announced Tuesday by Google Ads. With this mobile speed score update, the tool can now generate a score on the advertising console without as many ad clicks having occurred as were previously required. The mobile speed score [...]
A number of complaints have been coming in from webmasters, developers and publishers about AMP issues in Google mobile search and within the Google Search Console. There are some who are seeing Google show their stories in the "Top Stories" section with and without the AMP icon within minutes of each other. There are other folks who have been [...]
It's official. Google's mobile-first index has been unveiled and you've probably received a notification from Google Search Console that some of your websites are officially being enrolled in the index. This mobile first index will take precedence over the traditional desktop index Google has been using before and will serve the most appropriate results based on [...]
There are some changes to how Google is showing some of the issues within Google Search Console for the AMP enhancement report. According to Google, they will be combining some over-specific issue types into fewer generalized issue types within the report in an effort designed to separate issues into "more manageable groups" for webmasters. The AMP enhancement [...]
One of the frustrations for publishers with AMP has been their own domains won't display in the URLs when people click on AMP results from Google Search. Google has been busying working on a fix for months, and there is some good news! A preview was posted on Tuesday for developers to interact with its solution to [...]
On Monday, Bing announced the release of the Bing AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) viewer. The release of the AMP viewer gives Bing mobile searchers to access AMP-enabled pages from the search results. Currently, AMP pages are available in the news carousel in the US. It will roll out to other countries in the coming months. It will [...]
On July 17, following the introduction of AMP Stories for publishers in February, the AMP team has announced several updates to AMP Stories, including monetization capabilities. Version 1.0 of AMP Stories is now available to all developers, no whitelisting needed. AMP stories are standalone compilations of pages with AMP and HTML layers of elements such as media, [...]