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Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

#11

I wish Google would penalize websites with pay walls

I was under the impression they would (hidden content/different content for Googlebot).

Most paywalls which offer the Googlebot the full site also offer the full site if you follow a Google search result to the article. So while you're correct that providing the Googlebot and people coming from Google Search different results is prohibited, most paywall sites just don't show the paywall for either.

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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post #7

You mean intrusive like the AMP header on every !@$! mobile page now that's not only annoying but breaks the standard UX?

On my iPhone 6s Safari AMP sites don't even work. I see the AMP header and everything below it is just blank. I always have to "Request Desktop Site" to even load the site.

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

#15
I'd really like to see them work on improving relevancy instead of swinging their corporate weight around at whatever "benevolent" end they decide is important this week. Considering how much time I have to spend nowadays tweaking queries and futzing with the search tool options to get relevant results, I'm starting to look at all of these moves much more cynically. Taking on anti-patterns is great, but not when your search experience is rapidly becoming one.

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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post #13
post #7

You mean intrusive like the AMP header on every !@$! mobile page now that's not only annoying but breaks the standard UX?

Seriously, f..k AMP. It is breaking the internet with the google lock-in URLs.

I can't get the real URL from them on mobile at all.

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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post #8

What's about intrusive cookie warnings? (They are apparently mandatory in the European Union and Google made them part of the Adwords rules some time ago.)

They are explicitly permitted. From Google's own statement on this (https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...):

"By contrast, here are some examples of techniques that, used responsibly, would not be affected by the new signal:

Interstitials that appear to be in response to a legal obligation, such as for cookie usage or for age verification."

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

#19

Why only "mobile websites"? I hate em just as much when I'm viewing on the desktop.

Probably because it's a much bigger issue on mobile websites where your ability to click precisely on the 'x' is much lower than when your input device is a mouse or trackpad.

Edit: I am new to HN, why this was downvoted?

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

#20
post #7

You mean intrusive like the AMP header on every !@$! mobile page now that's not only annoying but breaks the standard UX?

On my iPhone 6s Safari AMP sites don't even work. I see the AMP header and everything below it is just blank. I always have to "Request Desktop Site" to even load the site.

Are you using an adblocker?
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