AMP pages indexed on Google

Hello @angiefernandez

Thank you for reaching out to us, yes it’s normal for AMP and non-AMP pages to be indexed with different URL’s.

You will find a dedicated section for AMP pages in the Search console which provides additional information such as validation issues, and its performance.

Since it’s flagged as an AMP version of the same canonical page, it will not be flagged as duplicate content.

We hope this helps!

Hello Milind!

Thank you very much for your answer.

So if I do a search with the command site:mysite.com/article, will Google see both versions?

mysite.com/article
mysite.com/article/amp/

It’s right?

Hello @angiefernandez

Thanks for being patient, No it should only show one page, but when you are on mobile devices and your AMP page is valid the AMP cache of the page (AMP version of page) should be served. When you are on the Desktop your pages should be served normally.

I hope this answered your question.

Sorry for the question again, but if I do this search from desktop, I see both AMP and non-AMP pages.

Can you be so kind as to check if my AMP pages are working well in Google, please?

You can see it in this screenshot.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Hello @angiefernandez

When you do search for specifically for amp keyword using the inurl parameter, it should show result with amp pages.

If you access AMP pages directly from your desktop, it should serve you AMP pages.

Allow me to explain briefly how AMP pages are made discoverable and served. When a user activates AMP plugin on their site with transitional/Reader Mode, it creates another version of the page on the fly, which can be served via URL structure /amp/

The non-AMP page will have a link attribute <link rel="amphtml"> which will tell google bots that the AMP version of the page is available

The Google bots crawl the page. If there is any validation error it will be reported on Google Search Console, if there are no validation errors it will be saved in the AMP cache.

When a user on a mobile device searches for a term and if it matches your site or page, it will be displayed on the result page. Upon clicking on the result, they will be served with an AMP version of the page.

When a user searches for anything on a desktop device and if your site appears on the search result page, it will be served with a canonical URL, which is a non-AMP page URL.

We hope this helps you understand the AMP better!

Thank you very much for your great explanation, Milind! Now I understand much better how this technology works.

Hello @angiefernandez

Glad our explanation is helpful, I’ll mark this as resolved Open a new support topic if you face further issues, also feel free to leave a plugin review, we would love to hear your feedback.