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> Its that AMP is borderline an anti-trust. And why is that? > More traffic without conversions generally does not help an e-commerce site. You should not be
by ucaetano 9y ago
> Its that AMP is borderline an anti-trust.
And why is that?
> More traffic without conversions generally does not help an e-commerce site.
You should not be using AMP for e-commerce, at least not for anything but a static product page.
Again, if you try to drive a nail with a hammer and it doesn't work, the fault isn't on the hammer, it's on you.
- kuschku 9y ago> And why is that? Because you only get a ranking boost if your page > contains a <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> tag inside their head tag. and > is allowed to be cached in the Google AMP cache
- ucaetano 9y agoYou're taking the guidelines for the Google AMP Cache. Do you have any sources showing that an AMP page hosted by CloudFlare is demoted compared to on hosted on Google?
- kuschku 9y agoYes. To quote the Google AMP Cache FAQ (https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/faq https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/faq): > Google products use the Google AMP Cache Google products will only mark your page as AMP if you allow it to be included in the Google AMP Cache CDN.
- dalore 9y agoYes, so your brochure site describing your product is an AMP page. But then a link to to the real ecommerce site to actually buy it.
- cramforce 9y agoAs the otherwise pretty wrong article correctly states: There is no such ranking boost.
- rhizome 9y agoNot even for Google News purposes? That's 90% of the AMP links I see.
- cramforce 9y agoWas talking about Google Search. Don't know about News. But the original article was about e-commerce.
- gertef 9y agoWhat if your ecommerce is fronted by news or blog?
- cramforce 9y agoNews shows up in the Top Stories carousel, not all blogs. If the news is so newsworthy the Top Stories carousel is the right space.
- kuschku 9y agoNot correct. Just look at this example: http://i.imgur.com/84FvZmA.png http://i.imgur.com/84FvZmA.png Notice how the news carousel is completely unrelated, and the pages do not otherwise show up in the search. Also notice the awesome bug in Google where "Nazi flag" returns "Flag of Germany".
- cramforce 9y agoOh, certainly for English results showing news results for that query is very, very relevant given what is going on in the US with people waving actual nazi flags. You can see that if you e.g. search for a flag that isn't in the news (like danish flag) there is no news result. I'll report the flag bug.
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