How to Disable Google AMP from WordPress Site without affect SEO

Do you want to disable Google AMP from your WordPress Site? Setting up Google AMP in WordPress Site is a very easy, but disabling it is a very hard task. Many bloggers and websites who installed Google AMP on their site but are also trying to remove it for various reasons. Here we will tell you how to disable Google AMP from WordPress Site.

Should we disable Google AMP


This question depends entirely on your site.

If you have set up Google AMP on the WordPress site and it has a negative impact on conversion rates, then you should disable Google AMP from your website. Here we will give you step by step guide How to Properly Disable Google AMP in WordPress.

So let's start...

How to Disable Google AMP in WordPress


Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP is an open source software. It has been developed specially for mobile users. The main purpose of AMP is to improve website loading speed and user experience. Although it has many drawbacks and the biggest drawback is that It greatly affect your website earning.

First, log in to your WordPress site, then deactivate the AMP plugin by visiting the Plugins page.

How to Disable Google AMP from WordPress

After deactivating the plugin, AMP will disable from your website.

Setting up Redirects to Avoid SEO Impact


Disabling AMP plugin will remove AMP version from your website, but AMP URLs can take more than a week to become no-index from the search engines. In such a way, when a visitor visits AMP URL, it will show 404 error.

Here we will redirect the AMP URL to regular non-AMP pages with the help of Redirection plugin.

First, install the Redirection plugin on your site. After installing the plugin, click on Tools >> Redirection and set up the redirection.

How to Disable Google AMP from WordPress

Add the following code to the Source URL field
/(.*)\/amp

In the Target URL field, add your website's URL according to the given format.
http://example.com/$1

Replace Example.com with your domain name. Check the Regex checkbox and select Redirections from the drop-down menu. Then click on Add Redirect button. You can see in the above screenshot.

To check that Redirect is working properly, now you can visit your website's AMP pages.

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