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Google to Devalue Sites with Pop-Ups & Interstitials in Mobile Search Results

August 23, 2016 at 9:13 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google to Devalue Sites with Pop-Ups & Interstitials in Mobile Search Results

Google is finally making the leap to target sites that are giving searchers a poor user experience by devaluing sites using all kinds of pop-ups and mobile interstitials – including fake interstitials.  Starting early next year, Google will not rank pages with intrusive interstitials as highly as those without.  And more importantly, this includes pop-ups […]

Google Dropping Mobile Friendly Tag; 85% Mobile Search Results are Mobile Friendly

August 23, 2016 at 9:05 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Dropping Mobile Friendly Tag; 85% Mobile Search Results are Mobile Friendly

Google will be dropping the familiar “Mobile-friendly” tag from all mobile friendly results when someone does a search on a mobile device. With 85% of the mobile search results are now mobile friendly, it makes sense that this move would happen to declutter the search results and leave a cleaner look.  With the majority of the […]

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