A note to the developers.
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The original idea behind AMP pages was that the search engines and other entities on the internet could access for mobile delivery, very fast loading pages.
Google began by crawling a normal html page and analysing it as to content as well as SEO data such as Titles, descriptions, Open Graph data, schema etc.
It would then add that page to the index and at the same time take note that an AMP page that was exactly the same was available.
In the case of a mobile user that AMP page would be served instead of the full html page.
Since that time AMP has become more and more feature rich and since Google’s “Mobile First” policy was announced things have changed.
Full AMP copies of entire sites with menus etc have now become a viable alternative to having a mobile version of a site using whether responsive themes or plugins like WP-Touch.
This means that Google is most likely crawling AMP pages/sites independent of the full HTML sites and thus creating a mobile only eco system.
Before it was enough to have all the SEO data on the full HTML site but now it is just as important to have that same information available on AMP versions.
The one reason I have not deployed this plugin on my money sites is that it strips out the SEO data from plugins such as All-in-One SEO, WP-Social and other plugins that control meta data like titles, descriptions, schema, open graph etc.
Once it can do this then it really will be a contender.
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