odd duplicate site apparently established
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My site stats page shows this URL as a referrer:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/2017/05/24/gabriel-furmuzachi-researcher-profile/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQGCAAYACABThat seems to be a slight revision of an actual post on my actual site:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/2017/05/24/gabriel-furmuzachi-researcher-profile/When I try to track down just the first part of the new URL, Google tells me it doesn’t exist. Anyone have any idea what this is?
Thanks.
WendyThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Wendy,
You are correct in your suspicion: it is a version of the page on your site. In fact, it is that page, only using Google AMP. You can see how WordPress.com uses AMP for a better mobile experience for all WordPress.com creators and readers: https://en.support.wordpress.com/amp-accelerated-mobile-pages/
There is a post on the forums where someone else ran into this issue earlier this year: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/unauthorized-use-of-my-post-by-ampproject?replies=8
In it, you can see that @kokkieh’s response to learn some options about what you can do if you don’t want to offer an AMP version of your site.
Lastly, I found some websites around the internet that say the type of referring link that your seeing is a bug in the AMP product, although that’s on Google’s end to fix. It’s only a bug as far as analytics reporting goes. Otherwise, everyone that clicks a Google result and loads the AMP version of your site has a better experience than without it.
If you have any questions or wonder more, ask away!
Best,
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Hi, The URL is an AMP ( Accelerated Mobile Pages Project ) page.
There’s no need to panic.
Its –possibly, created as a fast clone of the real page
What is AMP (& a Short History)
AMP stands for “Accelerated Mobile Pages”, and that is exactly what it does. It is a simple type of HTML code that cuts down on a lot of heavy, fancy stuff that can increase load time of a website on mobile.
There are limitations to AMP HTML compared to regular HTML. For example, no Javascript is allowed, no external CSS, and there are some HTML tags that aren’t allowed (but some are replaced with special AMP HTML tags).
Google started the AMP Project in 2015 (probably when it realized the trend of mobile searches compared to desktop searches) in order to help large publishers (like Forbes and CNN) decrease their page load time on mobile, helping to increase time on site, drop bounce rate, and improve user experience.
When you implement AMP on your website, you are basically creating a special AMP page that is very similar to the original page. Except that it is built with the AMP HTML code, it can be cached on Google’s server for almost instant load speed, and creates a better user experience.
For more information about how AMP works, I recommend checking out this video from the AMP Project.
Hope that helps,
Also check out this post – https://www.semrush.com/blog/wordpress-amp-guide/ -
Hi @anthonymcgreat,
We posted at the very same minute! Thank you for the solid background on AMP! :-)
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You can also disable AMP or edit how it renders your site on mobile devices:
From the Settings menu in the Calypso (blue) interface, under the Traffic tab, you will see: Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), where you can enable/disable/edit to suit your needs.
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Juste not Google favors AMP-enabled sites. And they should only show the AMP pages on links that have already been optimized. Otherwise you’ll see your regular mobile view.
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