Hey Johny, your best bet is to take a look at the AMP Project guide. It should take you through it step by step. From markup and validation through to when you publish your posts.
Posts made by TimHolmes
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RE: How to Implement AMP for Single Blog Post?
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RE: How to use icons for iOS, Android & windows home screens?
Ok so this allows your website to be saved down to the homescreen as a bookmarked icon. Your phone should select the best resolution for your screen from the above dimensions.
If you are doing the same for an App - sorry should of asked it may be different depending on how your app is compiled.
EDIT : Ignore last bit in first message, looks like I pasted a bit too much

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RE: How to use icons for iOS, Android & windows home screens?
Hey Johny, a quick google search and looking at some of my own code helped with with the below. Hope it is of some use.
Google/Android - click here for official page
Apple iOS - click here for official page Windows - click here for details on StackOverflow--
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RE: Change the homepage text entirely
Agree with the above, if you are generating better, more relevant content that expands on your topic and answers the frequent questions your audience asks, (maybe checkout GSC for these questions) then it should be fine. Make sure you monitor your site closely for a period to ensure nothing is tripping up.
If you are looking to rank your home page rather then specific pages for both current and newly targeted keywords, I would suggest these are set up to be tracked so you can monitor multiple ranking movements both prior and post change. Hopefully with better content you will move in the desired direction.
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RE: PPC Long tail keywords
Agree with Alick3000, broad match modified keywords would be far more attractive, and as per link values, nothing would be driven by this process.
Using broad match allows you to match a series of keywords to any longtail phrase. Providing the +keywords you use are present, then your advert/adverts will potentially appear.
As per +summer +dresses - from Alick300 - this would match both of your longtail ideas and more.
e.g.
Top 10 highest rated summer dresses Popular dresses for the summer weather.
Where can I buy spring/summer ladies dresses blue summer dresses size 10 dresses with a summer print
etcAs you can see it gives you a much wider target whilst still being specific to your needs.
I hope this helps.
Tim
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RE: How Good or Bad is having a blog feed(s) on the homepage?
Hey Judd, I also agree with Martin.
I would suggest reducing the number of articles on your homepage. The homepage is more of a gateway to introduce further primary content, services and products of your site. A space to sell and entice your audience. I think by having so many articles you are potentially causing more distractions that necessary.
More content about your business and services would also be more beneficial than the blog content.
Maybe just have a single row for your blog, featuring a single article from each of your categories. That way hopefully you will enable your services to shine a little more whilst still retaining some peripheral related content seo value.
If people are searching for your blog content and you rank well, the articles themselves will predominately be the landing pages rather than your home page.
Hope that is of some use.
Cheers
Tim
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RE: Does too much inline CSS impact SEO rankings
If you have lots of inline css, but would like to implement a site wide style change - e.g. changing text size, or your updating your brands colours - any inline css could stop this from taking affect fully and instead of a quick change to a single line of css in a stylesheet, you could potentially have to update hundreds of files wasting time and effort that could be spent elsewhere.
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RE: Recommend me best tools for live ranking
I currently use rank tracker from seo powersuite as i can track everything I need in there against 5 of my competitors. Another good alternative is SerpFox.
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RE: Title & Keywords
I understand why this is probably a difficult situation, but I would probably look into your Search Console terms to see what people are typing the most.
Being from the UK like yourself I would probably type in Henry Vacuum despite the brand actually being Numatic. As growing up I was always told it was simply a Henry vacuum or Henry Hoover, however working in industry, people may refer to them as Numatic etc.
Your search console will probably provide the best idea as to what to target, but as it stands I'd still hope to rank somewhere with what you already have.
As a suggestion maybe try a few titles based on Item - Category - Brand
Henry Xtra Vacuum Cleaner - Numatic Vacuums - [websiteName]
And then repeat your title experiments after a while to see what works best.
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RE: How can i create goal for unchanging url after filling the form
If you cannot append url parameters you could potentially set up a POST success or fail / callback script to trigger events or also set events to take place on submission of your forms submit button etc
The following resources may be of some use.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032415?hl=en
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events -
RE: Fetch as Google issues
From what I can gather the DNS is fine, our A records are only pointing to our website? if it was DNS what would be missing?
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RE: Fetch as Google issues
SSL is fine and so is our DNS from what I can gather.
I do get one notification for a blocked resource but this is an external element? will this cause any issues?
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Fetch as Google issues
HI all,
Recently, well a couple of months back, I finally got around to switching our sites over to HTTPS://. In terms of rankings etc all looks fine and we have not move about much, only the usual fluctuations of a place or two on a daily basis in a competitive niche. All links have been updated, redirects in place, the usual https domain migration stuff.
I am however, troubled by one thing!
I cannot for love nor money get Google to fetch my site in GSC. No matter what I have tried it continues to display "Temporarily unreachable". I have checked the robots.txt and it is on a new https:// profile in GSC.
Has anyone got a clue as I am stumped! Have I simply become blinded by looking too much??? Site in Q. caravanguard co uk.
Cheers and looking forward to your comments....
Tim
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RE: Reviews in Shopping Ads
Hopefully the below will help.
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375474?hl=en-GB
As these are in essence simply google adverts the ratings are pulled from Google's review partners or trusted sources, so that could be TrustPilot or more, they add them all up to form an aggregate rating that is then displayed to the searcher.
Standard schema style reviews embedded in your websites pages will only show for organic results not these adverts.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Tim
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RE: Review markup not showing up in SERP anymore
have you ran a test - https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/
Make sure nothing has changed or gone missing from your schema.
Your agency is clearly telling a lie that it is no longer being used. - type in "car insurance" and you will see loads.
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RE: Review markup not showing up in SERP anymore
As far as I am aware digital agencies don't host reviews. The only Google "review" partners I am aware of are listed on the link below.
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375474?hl=en-GB Update - sorry the above link was for Google Adwords
My bad...Like you said it could be temporary and there have been instances of bugs in the past which have stopped them displaying, or Google may have chosen to stop reviews for your niche - or are others still displaying?
Have they chosen another site to show the ratings over yours?
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RE: Review markup not showing up in SERP anymore
We also use review mark-up. We use it based on aggregated / combined scores - say 200 reviews average 4.7 out of 5 etc.
As far as I am aware Google is still using this schema markup and it is indeed showing up for us at press.
The one thing to consider however, is that Google chooses to either show the rating or not. Just because you have it in place does not mean they will use it. If the rest of your niche also uses the schema you may find that Google will only select a few at a time.
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RE: HTTPS for form pages?
As per Martijn you could indeed just secure the areas you want, but personally I would suggest adding the SSL to the entire site encompassing all pages. That way you can potentially get a small boost for your site from Google for taking users security seriously, but also if you have the ability you could also adopt the http/2 transfer protocol to allow for a speedier connection to your friends site, again giving them a potential serp boost.
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RE: Using the £ sign in meta title
The norm is something like Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword | Brand Name
I am however unsure on the rules regarding currency characters in Meta titles and nothing has come up after a quick search.
If you are based in the UK and only targeting UK search then I would imagine the £ symbol will work fine for most but sometimes foreign/geo related characters don't show correctly in some browsers. The best thing you can do is to try it out and measure the changes in your SERPs for the main terms surrounding this monetary offer. You may see a boost in your CTR if your offer is compelling enough, even if you see a drop in the SERPS by a place or two.
So, Test and Measure is my advice,
e.g.
Car insurance - £10 off online | My Brand
**vs **
Car insurance - get your online discounts | My BrandGood luck
Tim
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RE: Duplicate content warning: Same page but different urls???
Hi there AspenFasteners, in this instance rather than a .HTAccess rule I would suggest applying a rel canonical tag which points to the page you deem as the original master source.
Using the robots to try and hide things could potentially cause you more issues as your categories may struggle to be indexed correctly.