In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses:

MHC’s early analysis of the May 2020 Core update

New - Rising Retail Categories by Google

Google is displaying date and creator of Youtube videos rather than the article itself

Robots.txt is always obeyed by Google

Updating your title tag to the current year is not enough

Geotargeting does not restrict a site to only be shown in that region

Being on the first page is a sign you’re doing things well

Slow declines over time may mean that your website is becoming less relevant

Negative SEO is not the reason Google created the disavow tool

Google almost never indexes all content

There is no special tool or technique that will alert Google of your canonical changes

Hyphens vs underscores in urls: a test

GSC lags are not related to core updates

What likely happened with LinkedIn dropping out of the index

Local SEO: Possible update

Local SEO: What you should know about Covid-19 Google posts

Local SEO: Reviews are coming back

Local SEO: Be careful before marking your business as closed

This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 132:

https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-132/

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