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ars on June 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Changes in rankings of smartphone search results

Headline is inaccurate - they don't downrank for redirects. They downrank for redirects to the mobile homepage instead of the mobile specific page.

I didn't see anything in there about app banners.

(In case it's changed the headline currently says: "Google downranks sites that do mobile redirects / app banners".)

huskyr on June 12, 2013 | [–]

Thanks, i've changed the headline.

danmaz74 on June 12, 2013 | | [–]

To make it even clearer you could add an always: "... that always redirect...". How it is now it's still pretty cryptic :)

WickyNilliams on June 12, 2013 | [–]

Originally the article (at least when i read earlier today) did contain advice about app popups etc

EDIT: seems it was a different, but very similar article - https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/co...

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