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
#2I wish Google would penalize websites with pay walls
Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#3Good. Those have been becoming increasingly prevalent to the mobile web's detriment.
I don't mind a few ads, but many of these interstitials are downright maliciously designed, making the entire page load consistent on hitting a tiny "x" target, presumably designed with the intention of facilitating accidental clicks on the ad.
Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#4This title confused me. I thought Google was penalizing mobile websites by injecting intrusive pop-up ads.
Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#5I wish Google would penalize websites with pay walls
I was under the impression they would (hidden content/different content for Googlebot).
Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#6I wish Google would penalize websites with pay walls
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Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#7You mean intrusive like the AMP header on every !@$! mobile page now that's not only annoying but breaks the standard UX?
Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#8What'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.)
Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#9Funny, because Google Adsense offers "Page-level vignette ads" which are full page interstitial ads shown for mobile devices.
The penalty must not apply because:
> They're displayed when the user leaves a page, rather than when they arrive on one, so the user doesn’t have to wait for them to load
Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#10I wish Google would penalize websites with pay walls
Pay walls will probably inevitably be the only way quality content gets generated, given the increasing prevalence of ad blockers. As the return on investment for online advertising wanes, there's a good chance you'll see more of this, not less.
Furthermore, most paywalled sites seem to deliver a non-paywall version to Google servers and when coming from Google search explicitly to avoid this happening.