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

The latest on the December core update

A message from Sitebulb

Google speaks out on the future of the Structured Data Testing Tool

Early issues with the WordPress 5.6 release

Using Ahrefs keyword rankings tool

Interesting study that shows correlation between authoritative links and ranking

Come work with us!

Q&A: Can you use schema for a contributing expert who is quoted in an article?

Also in NL:

GSC API changes

How to conduct and prioritize actions for a speed and Core Web vital analysis

John Mueller clarifies how Google measures Core Web Vitals

Google looks at all indexed pages on your site when assessing quality

The best way to exclude parameters from crawling

Does Discovered, currently not indexed speak more about technical or quality issues?

Is it normal for Google to indicate that they can fetch some sitemaps but not others when you’ve reduced the number of URLs per sitemap?

400 unsolicited SEO tips

What you missed from the Chrome Dev Summit

Great story for freelancers to read

Local SEO: Using Google Trends to write for local audiences

Local SEO: How to tackle SEO for businesses without a physical address

Tools: Great Chrome extension for the most important SEO data

Tools: Useful tool that changes query based on slash directives

This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 163:

https://www.mariehaynes.com/newsletter/episode-163-light-version/

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