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@westonruter, I apologize for the amateur explanation. I am far more a marketer than a developer ?? This is how my colleague, an actual developer, explained it to me:

It was a caching tool on the server to prevent [Google] from crawling/indexing cached versions of pages. WPEngine turned that setting off, and the problem was solved. My understanding is that this will be the case for all other WPEngine installs using AMP Pages.

Issue Resolved: The parameterized AMP URLs were being read by googlbot as a redirect because of a cache setting with our web host, WPEngine. It looks like the website above, flowersfaq.com also hosts with WPEngine.

You should be able to just hit up WPengine support with the issue and they’ll disable this setting.

Thanks again @westonruter for the help!

Here is the post on Google’s forum:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/wE5SHtFqstw;context-place=forum/webmasters

Will do

Search Console won’t let me remove it…le sigh.

Thanks @westonruter.

In Search Console, I do see that there is a parameter for AMP: https://mytexasinjurylawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/amp-parameter.jpg

I did NOT create this parameter. Rather, it looks like it was automatically created by GSC: https://mytexasinjurylawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/amp-parameter2.jpg

I am dumbfounded! Do you happen to have any examples of AMP ‘Pages’ that are functioning properly from other websites? Thanks again!

Thanks so much for the quick reply Weston.

I think the issues lies in the query parameter /?amp

If you notice, my *Post* AMP URLs do not contain the “?” in the permalink, and they validate perfectly:

Eg: https://mytexasinjurylawyers.com/faqs/need-personal-injury-lawyer/amp/
Test: https://validator.ampproject.org/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fmytexasinjurylawyers.com%2Ffaqs%2Fneed-personal-injury-lawyer%2Famp%2F

However, my *Pages* contain the “?” the in the Permalink. If you try to just use the /amp/ permalink, the URL just redirects to the canonical, eg:

https://mytexasinjurylawyers.com/about-us/community/no-dwi-free-holiday-rides/amp/

On my *Pages* have to use the “?” parameter for the AMP version to display:

https://mytexasinjurylawyers.com/about-us/community/no-dwi-free-holiday-rides/?amp

Do you have any thoughts on how I can make it so that AMP *Pages* permalinks do not include the “?” parameter?

Thank you!