With Core Web Vitals prominent in the SEO community dialogue, we wanted to take a moment to dive deep into understanding the issue. We researched and found a world of caching and optimization tools, and then tripped across and tested one that had somewhat of a contentious discourse in the public square. We reached out to the author of an article crying “FOUL!”. Let's learn about the CWV issue and find out about Black Hat Core Web Vitals today on the EDGE.
[00:08:04] What is the problem with WordPress sites?
[00:11:14] Google has a history of trying to help people recognize the speed problem
[00:14:29] The difference between PSI scores and Core Web Vitals
[00:18:58] Google understands that the time of the hand-coded websites is finished and we're in the era of bloat
[00:23:31] It's simple: You have to make sure that JavaScript is not render-blocking
[00:26:19] What about shared hosting applications and platforms?
[00:30:48] The new world of caching tools in the battle for speed
[00:31:50] Field Data and Lab Data
[00:35:34] A New Solution: Nitropack?
[00:38:35] Of course your site will be lighter if you remove ALL JavaScript!
[00:44:13] Nitropack's Response
[00:45:53] Be prepared for a penalty from Google, because you're cheating.
It was an all-skate for Google topics this week on the EDGE. The EDGE team covered articles from Search Engine Land and Search Engine Journal with a sidebar regarding Shaquille O’Neal’s appearance without podium on a Formula 1 race (serious squirrel chasing). Dive into the potential serious connotations of alleged ad throttling from Google related to AMP. Find about this and Mordy’s helpful tips on how to pace one’s own liquid intake on this episode of the EDGE.
[00:04:00] Up and down, up and down- More Volatile search results this year
[00:09:51] Quality Rater Guidelines add 5 new important updates
[00:24:06] Could there be Corruption and Anti-trust at Google?
Rollin, rollin, rollin...keep that mobile search rolling! Mordy, Jacob and Erin review the biggest news from last week - the Infinite Scroll on Google’s mobile search: did we just lose a psychological barrier that kept us in query revision mode? Are long tail phrase optimization strategies going to lose here? Also covered in our episode this week is the low performance of WordPress in Core Web Vitals and Google’s podcast knowledge panels discoveries! Yup - we’re in there. Have a seat around the campfire and listen in.
[00:03:55] WordPress Proposes Team to Improve Core Web Vitals
[00:13:16] Podcast knowledge panels go live in Google Search
[00:17:38] Google rolling out continuous scroll on mobile
Mordy’s back in the second chair to discuss Google’s SearchOn event from last week and join Erin in basking in all of the great reveals that Google had in store for us. We cover articles from Search Engine Land and The Verge, deep diving into the challenge that Google has as it tries to move users away from the Ten Blue Links.
[00:06:26] MuM’s the word at Google’s SearchOn event last week
[00:17:47] Google search gets larger images, enhances so much.
[00:22:33] Google wants to bring a richer, deeper search experience to its users.