See How AMP Optimization Gets Results

Google has said that AMP itself is not a ranking factor but it supports page load speed and user experience. Milestone Research has shown that adding AMP correlated to increased traffic and conversion.

While AMP is not a direct ranking factor, but speed is, and the benefits that it brings about such as faster page load time, privacy pre-reserved rendering or caching, lazy loading and it being HTTP secure contribute to the SEO of the website by improving engagement with users online and improves their experience. With the Page Experience Update, AMP is a vital framework to ensure the LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) of a page loads well within the 2.5 seconds requirement. So, factually and in retrospect, it helps a website rank better.

As a business, covering all possible touchpoints with customers is absolutely necessary to leverage the reach of your business to improve engagement and conversions. Though your business has the majority of its traffic on your desktop website, following the latest trends, majority of searches are carried out on mobile devices, and the numbers of searches for local businesses on mobile devices are increasing as every day passes. In addition, with Google’s Mobile-First Indexing, they will index and rank the mobile pages of a business website. The AMP framework aids in improving the speed and experience of the page and for the most important pages it will certainly improve the traffic to your mobile website.

The fundamental aspect of AMP is it being a vital ingredient to improve the experience and speed of a page which offers website owners the possibility of meeting the Page Experience Update - which means better ranking and better ranking increases traffic to a website. In addition, adding structured data or schema to the AMP page increases the chances of the page showing up as a rich result and thereby improving the chances of improving clicks to the website.   In fact, it is important to note that if you publish both AMP and non-AMP versions of a webpage, the AMP version will be indexed or linked and prioritized by Google precisely because of the assurance of the page meeting the user experience and speed expectations of a website visitor.   So yes, though Google does not display the icon on search, Google is still hard pressed with the use of AMP pages and with the roll out of the Page Experience Update, the emphasis on AMP is greater for websites that wish to achieve an optimum Core Web Vitals score. Quote on quote from Google’s Search Console Help page published on 31st March 2021, “Google will continue to invest in AMP, and strongly believes in the AMP Project’s goal to deliver web pages that provide a great user experience. Google Search will continue to direct users to the AMP versions of web pages when available. This enables users to benefit from the speed improvements that come from privacy-preserving prerendering and AMP caches.”

Yes, the SEO practices apply for both mobile and desktop websites. Initially, desktop websites were considered the primary version and mobile websites were the alternate version for businesses, but following search behavior and trends of mobile searches, this has changed and Google decided to introduce mobile-first indexing. What it means if your website has a desktop and mobile version, the mobile version will be indexed first, which means for it to rank, it needs to follow the SEO best practices. If your desktop is ranking well, and your mobile website is similar in layout to the desktop version, you just have to ensure that it is responsive to ensure that it ranks as well.   If a query is made using a mobile device, Google will display your mobile version to users.

As the name suggests, Progressive web apps (PWAs) are web applications that give a native app-like experience to users - basically, websites that look and function like apps. PWAs offer several perks such as faster load speed, responsive design, HTTP secure, accessibility for all types of browsers, offline usability, and has personalized functions as websites can use them for push notifications, etc.

Absolutely, because the features of AMP and PWA complement each other with their functionalities and pave the way to a super-fast user experience for users. While AMP will help with fast page load speed, the other advanced functionalities of PWA will ensure that your website visitors are getting the best of both worlds. Consider AMP as the entry to PWA. In fact, Milestone CMS makes the best use of the capabilities of both features AMP and PWA to give our clients the best possible website experience. While AMP offers stellar page load speed, we use PWA for our clients to re-engage with their customers using push notifications.

Milestone CMS will give you the option of converting 7 of the high-volume pages into AMP, while the rest of the pages will be in the normal mobile-friendly version.    Tip: Choose the pages that are critical which customers visit directly from SERPs (organic traffic) to convert to AMP.   The benefits of Milestone AMP’s offering ensure:  High-volume pages meet the user experience and speed requirements of the Core Web Vitals  Mobile responsive design   Improved user experience  Reduced bounce rate  Increased possibility of a conversion and better ranking on search

For some queries, the user may be satisfied with the content they see in the SERP, for example in a news carousel. So while it may cannibalize some clickthroughs and traffic, that traffic will so to some site that is using AMP. If you were not ranking in the top 10, then you are very likely to get more traffic using AMP because you will have improved visibility.

AMP pages are usually 5 to 20 times faster and usually load in less than 0.8 seconds. Most Milestone CMS customers enjoy page load speeds under 1 second and experience increased engagement and conversion.

No, AMP cannot be injected through Google TAG Manager. AMP code should be built into the site or served from a parallel site when mobile pages are called.