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Google’s John Mueller answered if Google considered mobile interstitials a negative page experience factor. Mueller acknowledged that nothing has changed. But he then suggested a way to show interstitials without any negative quality factor affecting the rankings.

Mobile Interstitials

A mobile interstitial ad is one that significantly covers a web page, keeping a user from seeing the content.

There are two kinds of interstitials, one that is overlayed over most of the web page and requires a click to close it.

The other kind of mobile interstitial is the kind that covers the entire web page.

Google Anti-Interstitial Negative Ranking Factor

In August 2016 Google announced that they were going to make mobile interstitials a negative ranking factor. The update to the algorithm occurred in January 2017.

Google specifically noted these kinds of advertising as subject to triggering a negative ranking factor:

• “Showing a popup that covers the main content, either immediately after the user navigates to a page from the search results, or while they are looking through the page.
• Displaying a standalone interstitial that the user has to dismiss before accessing the main content.
• Using a layout where the above-the-fold portion of the page appears similar to a...

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