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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

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I really would like to see Google penalize websites that force you to login after google showed these websites in the results. 1. Take Linkedin for example: you search for a person on google; google shows a linkedin result; you go to linkedin but you are greeted with giant popup asking you to login to view info. Ridiculous. 2. Same with Quora: they come in results with basic info, but when you go to their page, they…

Pinterest is even worse - in Google Images, images are listed but once you enter the site, you're blocked from accessing whatever you have been looking for.

I've firewalled it for just that reason.

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

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I really would like to see Google penalize websites that force you to login after google showed these websites in the results. 1. Take Linkedin for example: you search for a person on google; google shows a linkedin result; you go to linkedin but you are greeted with giant popup asking you to login to view info. Ridiculous. 2. Same with Quora: they come in results with basic info, but when you go to their page, they…

I frequently have to delete these kinds of HTML nodes off the page just to see if it actually has something I want. I debated rolling my own extension for the common sites where I run into this, but ended up just throwing up my hands at the absurdity of the situation.

Installing Stylish and rolling your own styles for those sites with copious "display: none !important;" rules works.

Or console-mode browsers.

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

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I really would like to see Google penalize websites that force you to login after google showed these websites in the results. 1. Take Linkedin for example: you search for a person on google; google shows a linkedin result; you go to linkedin but you are greeted with giant popup asking you to login to view info. Ridiculous. 2. Same with Quora: they come in results with basic info, but when you go to their page, they…

Elsevier, who indexes the text of the article in Google but requires $35 to show it to visitors.

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

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Pinterest is even worse - in Google Images, images are listed but once you enter the site, you're blocked from accessing whatever you have been looking for.

There should be one button option to exclude pinterest from search results, a workaround is to add -site:.pinterest.com to the end of the query when searching for images.

There is an official Google extension which does exactly that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

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

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Can we penalize web sites that beg people to use their app instead?

I occasionally browsed Reddit on my iPad. They force a really crappy mobile execution now (as in in the last 7 days). I'm not going to install the app, I just won't visit Reddit on my iPad any more.

On smaller devices they pop up the App download every time you visit. So I had already stopped browsing Reddit on my phone.

I'm all for responsive web and apps when they add value. And I know responsive web on complicated sites can be a challenge, but if 50% of web traffic is mobile now, what does it do to a sites traffic if the mobile experience is terrible?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The amount of consumer studies done on grocer layouts is enormous. The direction of foot traffic has been decided from rtl despite our common ltr reading format because it's more profitable to do so, the checkout line with small items marked higher than in other parts of the same store for the same reason, and so much more. If your sentiment were true, most heavily weighted expendables would all be located in the bac…

> most heavily weighted expendables would all be located in the back simply because of labor They are. At least in almost every grocery store I've been in. The milk coolers are almost invariably against the back wall, accessible from the stockroom (which itself has the loading dock), as is the butcher / meat department. Both of those departments are probably getting daily deliveries, and it's of stuff that needs to b…

The store is inevitably surrounded by 4 walls. Often more than one of those walls leads towards the front as part of the "cold chain".

If it were more profitable for the store to stock milk in the front they would - I agree. But the reasoning isn't delivery layout when they manufacture their own layout.

Either way, I thought this was an interesting take on it http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/23/334076398/episo...

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