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    Home â–¸ Podcasts â–¸ Why My Google Discover and AMP Traffic Has Dropped?

    Why My Google Discover and AMP Traffic Has Dropped?

    Vahe ArabianVahe Arabian
    March 19, 2020
    Fact checked by Vahe Arabian
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    Founder and Editor in Chief of State of Digital Publishing. My vision is to provide digital publishing and media professionals a platform to collaborate and promote their efforts, my passion is to uncover talent and… Read more

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    Episode Highlights:

    • Causes on Google AMP & Discover traffic drop
    • How to diagnose it
    • Expectations once the next broad algorithm takes place and continuing the recovery process.

    Key points:

    • A broad Google algorithm happened in September 2019, and publishers plagued with technical issues, particularly from AMP has experienced this issue
    • There has been a change in how Google discovers News and Discover content. News is now algorithmically determined rather than indexed
    • According to Search Metrics, AMP is important as it drives 25-75% (depending on your niche) of publishers mobile organic search traffic
    • Review paramater URL’s, caching and markups identified in Google Search Console in order to fix any technical SEO issues.
    • Improve your Google News Coverage by following the latest guidelines, with the addition of included updated AMP cache dates and article structured markup
    • Even if you recover, it doesn’t mean your traffic will bounce back. Focus on creating original and quality news articles.

    Tweetable Quotes:

    • “AMP is important as it drives 25-75% (depending on your niche) of publishers mobile organic search traffic”

    Referenced links:

    • State of Digital Publishing Google News SEO guide
    • Best Practices for News coverage with Search
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