Hi,
I enabled the AMP Addons with NewsPaper and when I try to access by phone for example, by default show the url as normal (responsive template) instead AMP.
Only appears AMP mode if I add manually /amp at end of the url..
Could you please help me with this problem?
Thanks and regards,
Sergio
Ji Serambca,
I am not part of tagdiv, just a customer .. but perhaps i can help .
AMP does not work the way you described it. By having an amp page for one of your posts does not mean that when visiting that post url (from any device) it will redirect to the amp version
The way it works it’s actually like this:
When google visits your post there is a directive in the html code that tells the bot “hy google, i have an amp page for this post too, the link is example.com/post/amp”
So google says , oh ok .. from now on i will try to offer people in the search results your amp page instead of your normal page
more or less something like this. I hope i was able to help 🙂
Hi Shumo,
thanks for your soon reply!
I undertand well with your explication. I try to explain when I access by google search (with amp detected because I see the icon with AMP) the first access is with AMP but if I navegate (the next redirection) appears as normal.
And… another question… I have more 1000 posts wrote. Only appears with amp … 70? Is this normal?
Thanks and regards again,
Sergio
Hi,
“I try to explain when I access by google search (with amp detected because I see the icon with AMP) the first access is with AMP but if I navegate (the next redirection) appears as normal. ”
– Yes, this is normal AMP behavior. Google developed the amp pages as a starting point for a user coming from their search page. Meaning: a user searches for something on google and they enter a page from the search results. They felt that they needed to give mobile users a faster result of that page because when a user clicks on a search result they should see the desired page really fast rather than waiting until the full original website is loaded.
But, if the user tries to navigate further than that specific page they landed on, they will navigate to the original site. Even if they navigate further to a page that also has an amp version… they will still navigate to the original version.
Between you and me, AMP does not use any next generation technology or anything of the sort 🙂 . AMP pages are just stripped down of scripts and animations or any “eye candy” elements that can affect the page’s size/speed. If you think about it, AMP pages actually use old school (simple) html before all the pretty things came into practice 🙂
And they way they work is like this: lets say you search for “list of best best wordpress plugins”… Google shows you the results. Lets say that the first 3 links are AMP pages. Well, even though you did not even click any of them yet…google will still load them in the background of your phone browser, all 3 of them, so that when you actually click on it it will be instant.Thus, for a page to be cached and used in their AMP system they require webmasters to server really thin and stripped down pages for the transfers to be as small as possible. If you use any scripts or anything like that your page will not even qualify as an amp page, they have strict rules for this.
They don’t care if a page is slow for a user when visited directly or navigated. They only care for the landing page a user gets when clicking on a search result 🙂
Did the user get their desired search answer when clicked on a search result in a fraction of a second? Yes? Well then our job is done, should he navigate further on that site on other pages that have no relations to our search result ..that is their problem 🙂
I went a bit on the topic 🙂 In short answer to your question , yes this is exactly how google intended to be with amp pages. It’s normal behaviour.
“And… another question… I have more 1000 posts wrote. Only appears with amp … 70? Is this normal?”
Unfortunately, with google and search results nothing is 100% for sure. They have guidelines but they are always just guides. Notice they always use words like MAY, MIGHT, SHOULD and never use words like WILL.
To quote them from various things:
If you use a custom meta description Google MIGHT use it as the page’s description in the search result, or it MIGHT not.
If you have a page that points to an amp version of it, google MIGHT use it for mobile search results. Then again it might not 🙂
A google engineer actually said once, quote”We know how the search AI should think but most of the times he takes decisions that we do not understand”
So to answer your question, it can take a while until google indexes and updates their search results for your AMP pages. And they also might not show the amp version for any search results but only for specific keywords they feel appropriate.
If you want to be sure that Google sees that page as a valid amp page simply use their validation tool from here: https://search.google.com/test/amp
If this tool says the page is valid without any errors this means it has passed their test and once they feel appropriate they will use it in search results.
