Is Google AMP a Win for WordPress? Some Publishers Loose Over 50%


Just a couple weeks ago, I told you how you how to add Google AMP to WordPress. I talked about how it can speed up your mobile site, get you featured in Google’s AMP articles carousel, improve your readers’ user experience, and still make you a bit of money. But, as some recent news articles have discovered, publishers are increasingly finding out that this “little bit of money” is nowhere near how much they make from the non-AMP versions of their mobile sites.
So, with that news coming out, Daan and I thought it was a good idea to follow up on my first post with a deeper look at Google AMP.
A Quick Refresher on Google AMP
I don’t want to rehash my previous post, so I’ll keep this very brief. Google AMP stands for Google Accelerated Mobile Pages. It’s essentially Google’s initiative to speed up the mobile web by offering stripped-down versions of websites to mobile users.
And it works. At least for speeding up the web. AMP pages load silly fast, which definitely improves user experience.
Google has even started marking AMP pages in a carousel at the top of their mobile search results:
So, as far as its stated goal goes, AMP is a smashing
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13795/is-google-amp-a-win-for-wordpress-some-publishers-loose-over-50




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