
Google touts ROI of AMP display ads, adding they perform best on AMP web pages
Display ads created using the open source (Google-led) Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) framework perform better on AMP pages than on...

Slow pages hurt conversions, but marketers aren’t in a hurry to fix them
Load time matters. Beyond the fact that Google has made page speed a mobile ranking factor, consumer behaviors and perceptions are...

AMP Story Ads come out of beta with Google Ad Manager support for direct sold ads
In July, Google announced a beta for publishers using Google Ad Manager (formerly DoubleClick For Publishers) to serve ads in AMP...

3 free tools to comprehensively test page speed
Of course, where there’s a positive, there is always a negative. The flip side to fast sites is slow sites, and slow sites tend to suffer...

Google releases AMP Stories v1.0 with new features, including an ads beta for DFP users
Examples of Google AMP Story ads. Following on the introduction of AMP Stories for publishers in February, the AMP team has announced...

SMX Advanced session recap: Mobile-first and AMP
Mobile-First & AMP For The Advanced SEO session from SMX Advanced. The session included the always impressive Alexis Sanders, Technical...

Priorities for diagnosing JavaScript-powered websites
In the last 20 years, Google’s search engine has changed a lot. If we take a look at technology and web development as a whole, we can...

Ask the SMXpert: SEO markup and structured data
The Ask the SMXpert series continues the question and answer (Q&A) segment held during sessions at Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West 2018....

Common mistakes and quick fixes to improve poky page speed
If your pages load slowly and customers leave before seeing your services, how will you grow a business and be successful? A recent...

Is responsive web design enough? (Hint: No)
As mobile-first indexing nears, the need to optimize for mobile has never felt so pressing. Even in its current iteration, mobile search...

Google AMP team launches ‘Render on Idle’ to load ads faster when browsers sit idle
Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) team has launched a new feature called Render on Idle that is designed to increase ad impressions...

Google announces AMP for Email – delivering Accelerated Mobile Pages experiences to your inbox
Starting today, developers can sign up for preview access to the AMP for Email spec and begin developing rich, interactive, engaging...

Google Analytics adds feature to unify users to Google AMP Cache pages & non-AMP pages
As more site owners have adopted AMP for speeding up mobile pages, measurement has lagged. That’s quickly changing. A visitor who went to...

Google rolling out support for AMP landing page in AdWords search campaigns globally
In May, Google announced it was running a beta test with advertisers to test driving traffic from mobile search ads to AMP landing pages....

Take our AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) survey
Google released their AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) framework nearly two years ago, and even though Google noted at their recent I/O...

Google announces AMP speed and viewability enhancements for ads
Yesterday, Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) group announced enhancements to ads served in AMP. Specifically, the project has...

Breaking news: When AMP goes through the roof
The audience for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) has been growing steadily over the past year, from single-digit to low double-digit...

The AMP is a lie
I thought with the introduction and adoption of responsive design, we wouldn’t be doing any more custom formats for mobile pages — but I...

AMP for Advanced SEOs: SMX Advanced insights
At the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle this year, Ranna Zhou from Google, Scott Sala from iProspect and Paul Shapiro from Catalyst all...
























