There’s nothing new about it that when Google rolls something new, everyone just jumps on it right away. Same is the case with AMP or Accelerated Mobile Pages that are the hot stuff these days. Nowadays we spend much time on the mobiles and so businesses are developing latest ways of monetizing. Just like Facebook introduced Instant Articles and Apple brought out Apple news, Google has rolled out Google AMP.

AMP or accelerated mobile pages is the open source program that is supported by Google. The main objective of the project is to make the content load very fast for the mobile users. AMP makes use of minimal HTML and JavaScript which further allows content to get hosted on AMP cache. Google can thus serve the cached version to the users as they click on the link in search results.

So, do you want to have Google AMP on your WordPress? AMP is the perfect way to make your site load faster on the mobile devices. The faster loading sites provide better experience to the mobile users and improve traffic to a great extent. Here we will be discussing about how to setup AMP in WordPress.

How to include AMP in your WordPress site?

You may notice that our Blog is AMP Ready and Here is AMP Version of SeoEaze Blog

SeoEaze Page Speed Before & After AMP

Step By Step Tutorial to Make Your WordPress Blog AMP Ready

First you Need to Install AMP WordPress Plugin – Link  or just to to Add New Plugin In Your WordPress Plugins Section & Search AMP to Install AMP Plugin. AMP WordPress Plugin

This is main AMP Plugin but after installing this your site is AMP Ready but this plugin don’t do much with designing of AMP Pages which you would surely like to consider, so to customize your AMP Site, add logo, ads, menu & many more options you need to Install Another Plugin AMP for WP ( Link ) or Search Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP for WP in Plugin Search to Install Plugin. AMP for WP Plugin Install

Setting Options -AMP for WP

To go to Settings Page, Look at the Options Available on your WP Dashboard Menu, You will find an option of AMP at bottom of Dashboard Links. Once You Click on AMP, AMP Settings Page will look like this

Settings Page Will have Following Options :

General – Her you can upload Logo for AMP site, choose a custom Home Page for AMP site & Some other options.

Analytics  – Here You can add Your Google Analytic ID to track the visitors of your websiteAMP Analytics Settings

Design – In Design Option You can choose from 2 Design Templates, there is 1 more option for adding additional CSS for custom designing.  Design Options in AMP Plugin

SEO Settings – In this section you can select options like Keeping SEO Meta Data from Yoast SEO Plugin, Custom Description in Yoast for AMP & Additional Header Tags.  SEO Settings for AMP Site

Menu – Here you can Click on the Link & Select a Menu for AMP Site, You can select from Previous Menus or you can create a menu for AMP Site.

Advertising – In This section you can add Google Adsense on different parts of your posts & pages by inserting Publisher IDs & Ad IDs. 

Single Post Settings – There are some options like Social Media Icons for Single Posts, Display Next & Previous Posts on main page, selecting size of featured image etc. 

Social Sharing :- In social sharing Settings you can choose which social sharing options you need for your posts.

 

There are some more setting options for settings related to Structure Data, Notifications & translation, You can choose as per your requirements.

To Display AMP version of website when visited from Mobile turn on the mobile redirection. You can also display link to normal version at last by checking Link to Non-AMP page on Footer option.  

Your WordPress Site is now AMP ready, This loads about 4 times faster than normal webpage on mobile & your visitors going to like it for sure. Not just page speed AMP is also very important for your website’s SEO as google consider a faster loading page.