What is Google AMP and How to Implement It on Your WordPress Website

Google has recently launched a project known as Accelerated Mobile Pages. This will increase your mobile browsing speed. If you are a mobile user and you have a poor internet connection,
You can load AMP version of the website for instant open. If you are not using AMP then you will have to use lightweight templates of WordPress which would be down version of WordPress.
AMP forces you to use a streamlined version of CSS and doesn’t allow any access of javascript is Google AMPipt element on your page. You will have to use off the shelf javascript library that forces images to lazy load.

How do AMP works?

AMP is specially generated for increasing the mobile browsing speed, the intention is not to replace responsive design for mobiles. In fact, AMP pages are not served directly when someone visits your website. It is served only by AMP consumers like Google search and Twitter.
After installing AMP version you will get a lightning signal in Google search results indicating that the web page shows is an AMP version of the original page.
So when you click on such pages you will be directed to the faster version of the web pages that instantly load on your device regardless of the internet speed.

Should you implement AMP?

If you are using an AMP version of your WordPress website, you are putting speed and readability. Because you won’t be able to use interactive elements on your AMP pages, you don’t need to create an AMP version of all of your existing pages.
You don’t need to create a down version of the landing page, you will have to just increase your website speed because speed is not the top priority for your landing page but conversion.

How to implement AMP version on your website?

1. Go to your WordPress admin and install the AMP plugin.
After installation, you will find the AMP version of your blog posts.
Your AMP URL looks like this:
www.youdomainname.com/blog-post/amp
If you haven’t enabled permalink on your website, you will find the AMP pages of your blog posts by appending: amp=1 instead.

2. Do keep in mind, simply installing this plugin will create a basic AMP layout for your WordPress blog. If you want to customize your AMP template and make it looks similar to your website, you may need to edit the CSS of your AMP template.

3. Now it’s time to check your page is valid AMP page. The main problem of AMP integration with your existing website is that you will find tons of AMP errors in your google search console account. But keep in mind that AMP plugin is not meant to be a proper solution for your AMP pages.
It creates a basic AMP layout for your website. After knowing these things you will have to find the causes of AMP errors manually and fix them.
The AMP pages will be served only through AMP consumers such as Google search. It’s an essential task to fix all these SEO errors in order to ensure that your AMP pages get indexed on search engines and cached on AMP CDN. This CDN also helps Twitter to easily discover and distribute your AMP page.
By logging into google search console you can always find AMP errors. After logging in go to search appearance>accelerated mobile pages to find errors.

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