Hmmm, although I understand your motivation in terms of wanting to exploit the latest benefits of Google's search optimisation, do you have to make it so apparent that they seem to have the upper hand? Google has trancended just being a verb to some form of sentient being. It hates, it dislikes it's alive!
OK, a bit dramatic I agree
Yes, way too dramatic.
but it does make me wonder if you're on the right track and there isn't a better way. I have found that when you're onto something "right" the obstacles seem to fall away. It just doesn't seem to be right just yet. Just saying. I don't know the answer. But the focus (however inadvertant or not) on meeting Google's needs just prompted the question.
I would be a fool not to have website that meets Google's requirements for SEO.
It's like people who hate Youtube and Google+ when that whole thing went down, and they told me to switch to Vimeo or something else instead. It's just an insane notion, I'd be out of business overnight, youtube is the only game in town just like Google is the only search game in town.
I can live with the changes but it will be mostly by trying to bypass them as much as I feel I need to. Getting me off your home page asap must be a counterproductive outcome particularly if I am not alone.
Sorry, but no matter what I do, there will always be people who don't like the changes for whatever reason. It is impossible, not just hard, but actually
impossible to have a website that pleases everyone and meets their needs and desires.
Do you have current stats on what percentage of your viewers use a mobile device and how often they do if they use both mobile and PC?
I do somewhere I think, but if you don't use a mobile to view the site then it's not of a concern to you how it looks when rendered on a mobile. I actually think it works pretty well on my mobile. And now the site is mobile friendly and acceptable to Googles requirements.