{"id":926,"date":"2015-11-25T12:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T12:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agencyplatform.com\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:17:55","slug":"google-again-issues-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencyplatform.com\/blog\/google-again-issues-a-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Again Issues a Warning to Site&#8217;s Using Sneaky Mobile Redirects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, it seems like Google\u2019s busy <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-warns-webmasters-again-do-not-use-sneaky-mobile-based-redirects-234664\" rel=\"nofollow\">issuing<\/a> warning messages to the webmaster community for infringing upon Google\u2019s webmaster guidelines. And this time it\u2019s the sneaky mobile redirects that are on the search giant\u2019s radar. In fact, just last month Google warned site-owners, who are intentionally or unintentionally using them to attract visitors to their sites.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>About the impending action on the sneaky mobile redirects, Google\u2019s Search Quality Sr. Strategist, Andrey\u00a0Lipattsev <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-mobile-affiliate-traffic-networks-21234.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">recently mentioned through a Google hangout video post<\/a> that the\u00a0team at Google is actively working on detecting and penalizing the sneaky mobile traffic networks across the web that redirect users from one site to another, which rather spoils the user\u2019s mobile browsing experience.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pKOwiIYsnis&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=25m16s\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andrey Lipattsev&#8217;s latest video post<\/a> via Google hangout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Andrey Lipattsev said that the issue <em>\u201cis very close to my heart right now.\u201d<\/em> His team is working with him to detect these \u201cmobile affiliate traffic driving networks\u201d where \u201cusers are just being bounced from one place to another.\u201d He said that sometimes publishers add these networks to their sites on purpose to make extra money, but sometimes the publishers, and even the advertisers, are unaware of it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Lipattsev said about the sneaky mobile redirects through his video post:-<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe issue is very close to my heart right now. His team is working with him to detect these \u201cmobile affiliate traffic driving networks\u201d where \u201cusers are just being bounced from one place to another. Sometimes publishers add these networks to their sites on purpose to make extra money, but sometimes the publishers, and even the advertisers, are unaware of it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, this is not the first warning that has being issued on the matter to the webmasters. Last month itself, a similar kind\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-warns-webmasters-again-do-not-use-sneaky-mobile-based-redirects-234664\" rel=\"nofollow\">warning<\/a> was issued by Google. But nothing happened after that, which brings us to the conclusion that the search giant only issues these warnings but never acts it out.<\/p>\n<p>Want to add something? Have your say by commenting below. For more information, email us at <a href=\"mailto:sales@agencyplatform.com\">sales@agencyplatform.com<\/a> or call (888) 736-0541 (Toll-Free).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, it seems like Google\u2019s busy issuing warning messages to the webmaster community for infringing upon Google\u2019s webmaster guidelines. And this time it\u2019s the sneaky mobile redirects that are on the search giant\u2019s radar. In fact, just last month Google warned site-owners, who are intentionally or unintentionally using them to attract visitors to their sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22,3],"tags":[15,23,170,171,172],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google","category-mobile","category-seo","tag-google-2","tag-mobile-2","tag-redirect","tag-warning","tag-webmaster"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google Again Issues a Warning to Site\u2019s Using Sneaky Mobile Redirects<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This blog highlights Google&#039;s recent warning regarding sneaky mobile redirects and their potential impact on website rankings and user trust. 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