Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP Enabled

My blog now has both Google AMP and Facebook's Instant Articles enabled.  Both of these formats are intended for the mobile web and speed is their main advantage. This is all part of my ongoing (and time consuming) efforts to make my posts as widely accessible as possible though in this case you'll only see the benefits if you're on mobile and using a service that supports it (Facebook for Instant articles and specific links for AMP)

AMP was pretty easy to do because there's a WordPress plugin. It's really basic (no settings at all) and the end result is equally basic with no images, but it is fast. So far according to my Google Search Console 875 of my pages have been indexed with AMP versions so they should start showing up in the mobile search results. If you're curious what it looks like you can just stick /amp on the end of this URL.

Instant Articles took a lot longer. There's a plugin as well but you have to get Facebook review and approval which in my case took 72 hours rather than the  24-48 indicated. Still it's working now and it looks really nice as this screenshot shows. Any time you are on mobile and follow a link to my website you'll get the Instant Articles version.

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