Explore how to leverage Accelerated Mobile Pages to Win Search Marketing. Gain insights from the webinar led by Praveen Meloth, Head Digital Marketing at Shopcj.com.
4. How do we react
• It was a poor experience for me…..
• 40% of the people abandon a webpage if it takes more that 3 seconds
to load (KISSmetrics)
• People are 5 time more likely to leave the site if it is not mobile
friendly
• One second delay in mobile lowers conversion by 3% decreases page
views by 10% and increases bounce by 9%
• Average Media Time for page load for optimized mobile site is 6 sec
to 8 sec. The median is around 22 sec
5. Google Focusing on Better Mobile
Experience
• April 2015 google released a mew mobile friendly algorithm
• Google Has Started With Mobile First Index
• Faster Loading pages have started to rank higher
• Rich Snippets and Rich Answers in SERP’s are becoming more
dominant
6. What Do We Have To Do
• Design First for Mobile and then for Website
• Have A Responsive Website
• Optimise Mobile Pages
• Adapt AMP quickly
• Build your PWA (Progressive Web Apps)
7. What is Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
• Launched in Feb 2016 by Google
• It is an Open Source Project
• AMP helps web publishers to load pages instantly
• It is like a normal HTML page, but a stripped down version
• It is similar to Facebook Instant and Apple News
• Median load time for AMP pages is 0.7 sec
• Not much development required
11. How Does it Work
• It fixes the size of the components and lays out the page in advance
• AMP JA knows how your page looks before any assets are loaded
• Width, height and other aspect ratios are set.
• Your Existing Page shopcj.com/kurtis
• The other APM page amp.shopcj.com/kurtis
• Amp page Canonical to point back to the original page
• No jumping around of content & the need to re-render is done away
with
• Free cached platform from google
• If you don’t have a standard page the canonical in AMP pages to point
back to itself
12. AMP Benefits
• Increase Discoverability by search engines
• More engaged customers on your site
• Bounce Rates Come Down Significantly
• Improved Search Engine Ranking
• Increased Traffic and More page per customer
• Increased Revenue for Publishers
• Better Conversion for Ecommerce Website
13. AMP Drawbacks
• Forms are not allowed
• Not all ads will work on AMP
• No Java script is allowed. Google Tag Manager to Google Analytics will not
work
• Understanding limitations of the AMP platform
• It restricts the way you code, you can only use the existing java script from
the library
• Less design control
• Tracking provides limited data
• Most of the AMP pages look the same
• Social Sharing was not Possible for AMP pages
20. Essentials While creating AMP pages
• It is very important to Validate your AMP pages
• Validation tools are built in to Chrome
• Publish only Valid Amp flies
• Add Metadata
• Ensure your AMP are discoverable
• Allow Crawlers to access you AMP files
• Test that your AMP loads correctly via Goolge AMP Cache
• Use AMP approved extensions for video
21. How to Track AMP performance
• It is Simple you ca use your existing Google Analytics
• It is Best to use different client id when setting up Google Analytics
• There are host of other analytics companies like Clickey, Adobe,
Linkplues etc…
22. Should you implement AMP
• AMP is great for static content pages. They work well for content
websites like news, blogs and for publishers
• No so great for ecommerce websites, but selective implementation
will work well
• Some Indian Companies who were first to adapt AMP :
- ET,Indian Express, Rediff, NDTV, Firstpost
23. Latest Updates on AMP
• The new update allows mobile
users to view copy and share
the canonical link of the article
or webpage along with the
Google AMP's version of the
URL
• Previously users were offered
the optimized version of the
original content that somehow
landed Google in some
controversies
• Available for Google ios, will be
soon coming to Andriod