SEO Marketing Experts Discuss Google's Upcoming Switch to Core Web Vitals

In a big online discussion forum related to SEO, a person shared a link to a story that stated starting in May 2021, Google will use core web vitals as a ranking signal. The person who shared this information wanted to know what other SEO marketers thought about it. One of them said that in one way or another, Google has already been doing that for years. Another person commented that they ran a Firefox Adsense campaign for 18 months and got paid $120,000 to do it. They were allowed to use a version of AdWords that wasn't yet released. This person went on to say that they have been ranking with user experience for years. They use Google tag manager and creative spoofing. This person admits that they skirt the Google terms of service knowing that it will help their small business clients.

Another person simply commented that Google always has been doing this. Several others agreed with this assessment, saying that Google has been doing that for years, and the announcement was just old news to keep SEO marketers distracted from what is really happening. Someone went to the article and said that it read like a press release.

A person said that Passages is a good example. Someone else chimed in that the May 2021 timeline is new. Another person agreed that they have been getting served passages or more than six months. An individual concurred with this and said that they have been doing a lot of user experience optimizing lately. They said there is a lot of work in that niche of site design.

One commentator wondered how they could find out what issues are affecting their site. A person replied and told them to look at the Core Web Vitals tab in Google Console. Another person said they took a hit on out-of-stock product page that gets a lot of site traffic. Most of the people who read the article simply stated they already knew, Google has been doing this for a while, it's old news and nobody in SEO marketing should be surprised. For more information click here https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/11/timing-for-page-experience.html.