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If you want to Set Up Google AMP on WordPress? AMP makes it easier for people to browse on their phones by making your website’s pages load much faster. A study found that more than half of all Google searches are done on mobile devices around the world. So, these kinds of searches should be your top goal if you want your WordPress site to load quickly and look great at the same time.
Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project makes this job a lot easier. Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, is a way to speed up how quickly your website loads on mobile devices. Websites that load quickly give users a better experience and can get more traffic. It’s a great way to make your site run faster on mobile devices, and it can even help you get higher in search results.
How to Set Up Google AMP on WordPress
Adding advanced functionality to your AMP content
Using the AMP for WP plugin, you can add a lot of new features and configuration choices to your AMP content. You can do the following with AMP for WP:
- Configure how your AMP content looks
- Add AdSense ads to AMP content
- Add social buttons to AMP content
- Enable AMP for your pages (not just posts)
- To get started, install and activate the plugin. As long as you have the basic AMP plugin activated as well, you should see a new AMP tab in your sidebar:
- To configure the design of your AMP pages, you can use the actual WordPress Customizer by going to Appearance → AMP.
- There, you can customize your layout and color options.
Configuring the basic Google AMP plugin for WordPress
The basic AMP plugin comes from Automattic and doesn’t need to be set up in any way. You only need to install it and turn it on. Then, add “/amp” to the end of your regular post URLs to see AMP versions of your posts: But there are some big problems with the basic AMP plugin:
- It only works for posts. Not pages.
- You can’t configure your AMP content looks or functions.
Adding social buttons to AMP content
Just click on the Social tab to add social buttons. There, you can turn on or off each network separately. On the Single tab, you can also turn off all social buttons.
Adding ads to your AMP content
Go to the Advertisement tab and set up different AdSense blocks to add ads to your AMP content.
All you have to do is choose where and how big you want your ad to be and add your publication information. The app also has a paid add-on that adds support for more types of ads, such as a “sticky” ad bar. The price of this add-on is $19.99.
What is Google AMP?
Google AMP stands for “Google Accelerated Mobile Pages.” It is a list of mobile-friendly web pages that anyone can add to. With AMP, these smartphone pages should load faster and be easier to scroll through.
In fact, what Google AMP does is make a copy of your website in AMP HTML format, which is built on web technologies that already exist. This gets rid of a lot of the parts of your site that slow it down, making it load faster. Google also “flattens” your site, which makes it load even faster.
Google put out AMP in October 2015, and speed was its main goal. That makes sense, since 53% of people leave a website if it takes more than three seconds to load. And 73% of people who use their phones to go online say they’ve been to a site that was too slow.
Benefits Of AMP
- AMP makes it much easier for mobile users with slow internet connections to use websites. It makes your content lean and quick, so your guests won’t have to wait for your site to load. If your content is helpful, this should lead to more traffic on its own.
- Google is trying to get more people to use AMP by giving them a higher ranking in mobile search results. If you add AMP to your site, it will help your SEO.
- If your site’s content meets AMP standards, it might show up in the slideshow at the top of Google’s mobile search results. This could bring a lot more people to your site.
- Having AMP on your site will make your hosting systems less busy, which will help your site run better.