Friday, September 16, 2016
If you have recently implemented
Accelerated Mobile Pages on your site, it’s a
great time to check which of your AMP pages Google has found and indexed by using
Search Console.
Search Console is a tool that helps you monitor and maintain your site’s presence in Google
Search, including any Accelerated Mobile Pages. You don’t have to sign up for Search Console for
your AMP pages to be included in Google Search results, but doing so can help you understand which
of your AMP pages are eligible to show in search results.
To get started with Search Console, create an account or sign in
create an account or sign in and
validate the ownership of your sites.
Once you have your site set up on Search Console, open the
Accelerated Mobile Pages report under
Search Appearance > Accelerated Mobile Pages to see which
AMP pages Google has found and indexed on your site, as shown here:
The report lists AMP-related issues for AMP pages that are not indexed, so that you can identify
and address them.
Search Console also lets you monitor the performance of your AMP pages on Google Search in the
Search Analytics report. This report tells
you which queries show your AMP pages in Search results, lets you compare how their metrics stack
against your other results and see how the visibility of your AMP pages has changed over time.
To view your AMP page metrics, such as clicks or impressions, select
Search Appearance > Search Analytics
> Filter by AMP.
(Note: if you’ve only just created your Search Console account or set up your AMP pages and they
have not been detected yet, remember that Google crawls pages only periodically. You can wait for
the scheduled regular recrawl, or you can
request a recrawl.)
Have you been using Search Console to monitor your AMP pages? Give us feedback in the comments
below or on our
Google Webmasters Google+ page.
Or as usual, if you have any questions or need help, you can post in our
Webmasters Help Forum.
UPDATE: To help ensure that your AMP implementation is working as expected, Search Console
now has an
enhanced AMP testing tool.
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