The other day, we talked about how a couple of publishers are leaving AMP and are set on using their own versions for mobile-optimized article pages, especially since Google has dropped the AMP requirement to be in the Top Stories Carousel.
With Google’s focus on page experience and the ongoing roll-out of the page experience update to Desktop, one is bound to ask, is good page experience a requirement to be in the Top Stories carousel? Are pages that are rated to have poor page experience scores not considered for showcasing in top stories?
Barry Schwartz just did that and asked John Mueller on Twitter if you need to have good page experience to be in the top stories carousel.
Mueller referenced the Core Web Vitals and Page Experience FAQs for the answer to the question.
According to the documentation, all web pages, irrespective of their page experience status of Core Web Vitals score are eligible for the Top Stories carousel. Compliance with Google News content policies is the only requirement to show up in Top Stories.
However, whether the content shows up in Top Stories depends on a number of ranking factors that Google considers, with page experience being one of them.
Nevertheless, any content, irrespective of its page experience metrics, is eligible.
Based on the documentation, it looks like it is not a requirement for eligibility, however, page experience is considered when it comes to Google choosing which pages to showcase in Top Stories. I would think it would be similar to ranking in the organic search results in that page experience is considered, yet the content is still the major consideration, while page experience is more of a minor factor and a tiebreaker.
Read more of the Core Web Vitals FAQs here. You could also check out our article on Core Web Vitals and if it is a ranking factor here.
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