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

Two minor Google updates recently (most likely)

Using SEMRush to analyze Pinterest in the May core update

New info from Google on how comment quality can hurt or help your site

Manual actions may be handled differently at Google now

Local SEO: No significant updates

Local SEO: New GMB attribute - “black owned”

Local SEO: What we know about those $50/month upgraded GMB plans

Also in Newsletter:

More on the government update June 2020

Google career certificates

New structured data for image licensing

Discussion on the reasonable surfer model and PageRank and whether where the link on your page is matters.

Changes to chrome that will make it harder to see referral data

Great stuff from Patrick Stox on what you need to know if switching to https

More from Brody Clark on fixing CLS issues

Subdomains vs folders

More from Google on how they ignore many links across the web

Can negative reviews impact your rankings?

Does Google use CTR as a ranking factor?

Local SEO: can schema improve traffic?

This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 144:

https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-144/

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