Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

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Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes episodes

April 15, 2020 How Bing Ranks Websites, Is E-A-T a Ranking Factor and More SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
Does user search behavior during COVID-19 impact rankings?
More from Google on whether E-A-T is a ranking factor
How Bing ranks websites
Google launching journalism relief fund
Google started a blog series featuring case studies
Bing has max-snippet and other features now
More from Google on whether guest posts are unnatural
More from Google on the importance of being unique
Amazon cutting affiliate commission rates
Chrome 81 is now rolling out
If you are missing keyword ranking data for some keywords, this could be why
France has ordered Google to pay publishers and news agencies for content
New study on how people tend to read a webpage online
Cloudflare switching to a reCAPTCHA alternative
Local SEO: current state of GMB - reviews are reappearing
Q&A: Should we be republishing our content on LinkedIn or Medium with a canonical link pointing back to our site?
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56 min
April 08, 2020 More Major Search Pattern Changes, Hidden Content and Other SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
In depth look at how Coronavirus is continuing to affect search patterns
Will Google stop pushing core updates during this crisis?
New ways to highlight COVID-19 announcements in Google Search
Google is temporarily rolling back same site cookie labelling
Some SERPS have featured snippets lower down on the page now
Google is testing review star placement and colour
More discussion on whether content behind tabs is given less weight
Should your most popular pages be linked to from your navigation?
Does old school link building hold any merit?
More on Amazon suspending affiliate programs
Google no longer tracks the number of total indexed pages on the web
Foundem vs Google lawsuit reveals info about Panda
Critical vulnerabilities with the Rank Math WordPress plugin
Local SEO: How to remove the COVID-19 warning on your GMB listing
Local SEO: Some review responses are appearing now
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35 min
April 01, 2020 Changes in Search Trends or Possible Algo Update and More SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
Possible Google update March 23, 2020 (and maybe March 27?)
Weekly poll - how is Coronavirus impacting your search traffic?
Are you seeing a drop in leads due to Covid-19?
How to pause your business online in Google Search
New info from Google for health sites re Covid-19 content
Update on Chrome release timeline
New GSC features
Interesting case of a site hurt by odd robots.txt issue
Google may be using author vectors to determine who wrote your content
If your site is down, how long will it take for rankings to be impacted
What to do with domain names you are not going to renew
Amazon asking affiliates in India not to send them traffic
Local SEO: GMB dashboard has a temporarily closed button
Local SEO: GMB has new categories for takeout and delivery
Local SEO: GMB reviews are apparently in a queue
Q&A: Why is this site with low E-A-T ranking above me?
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41 min
March 25, 2020 Coronavirus and Organic Traffic, Reconsideration Requests and Much More SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
The current impact of the Coronavirus on SEO
Examples of businesses that are adapting in this hard time
Chrome 81 is delayed
Insecure images now blocked by Chrome
New Google resource for Covid-19
Right sided featured snippets have mostly all been moved
Important info for sites using urls with anchor fragments
Hosting companies may have issues in this hard time
New guide from Youtube about hosting virtual events
How manual actions are handled
Reasons for your AMP carousels to not rank
Will Google hide search results that require a paywall to read?
New schema recognized by Bing in pandemic times
Will the internet go offline in these hard times?
Local SEO: GMB reviews, responses and Q&A halted
Local SEO: Issues with Google posts
Local SEO: Event Canceled schema may not work
Some tips on how SEO companies and agencies are coping with working from home
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43 min
March 18, 2020 Coronavirus and the Impact on the SEO Industry, Possible Algo Updates and More SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
Possible small update March 10, 2020
Discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on businesses, SEO companies and more
Bing may be pushing out more algorithm updates lately
GMB and Google Ads support may be unavailable for a while
New schema for COVID-19 info sharing
Increase to AMP CSS limit
Youtube video review is all machine learning for now
If have multiple product variations, should you create pages for each?
Does Google hate affiliate sites?
You can filter and sort Google sheets by colour now
Reddit is using rel=ugc nofollow for outbound links
Project verily’s COVID-19 triage tool is in testing
Should you mark your business as temporarily closed in GMB?
Google using Duplex to call business owners for updates
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32 min
March 11, 2020 Coronavirus Traffic Fluctuations & Discussion, Security Certificates and Much More SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
Do you need an SSL certificate on a site that you are going to redirect?
Coronavirus is likely affecting your site’s traffic
March 3-7 possible Google update
Mobile first indexing soon to be rolled out to 100% of websites
Google assistant can now read articles aloud on your browser
More “in this video” in the SERPS
PDFs in mobile SERPS
Training info from Google re sitemaps
How does Google process hreflang?
How does Google use H tags?
Google analytics bug causing people to not be able to switch accounts
Don’t index your search pages
Several WordPress plugins are having issues
Google is recommending we do free site audits???
Local SEO: Update your GMB profile if Coronavirus affects your hours
Local SEO: Possible update?
Local SEO: News for auto dealers
Local SEO: Changes to event visibility
Local SEO: Does Google really manually review images for GMB?
Q&A: Does Google crawl your robots.txt file first before your site?
Q&A: Should you noindex forum profile pages?
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47 min
March 04, 2020 February Algo Turbulence, Google’s Nofollow Changes Go Live and Much More SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
More on the February algo turbulence
Google’s new nofollow changes are live
People are still having trouble getting new content indexed
Google planning to switch all sites to Mobile First Indexing soon
New tips from Google on best practices for News coverage
Free access to Google’s advanced Hangouts Meet video conferencing
New Youtube Liaison
New icons on Google images
Has there been an increase in manual actions for outbound unnatural links?
Google has updated their FAQ guidelines
Googlebot will not click a “load more” button
Google has a new course on technical writing
How to contact Bing re ranking issues
Q&A: Is it against Google’s Guidelines to own 3 websites in the same niche?
Q&A: Why aren’t these pages getting indexed?
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53 min
February 26, 2020 Increasing Your Featured Snippets, New Google Search Console Exports and More SEO Q&A
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
Continuing ranking shifts throughout February
Is Coronavirus interfering with your client’s traffic patterns?
You can now export more data from GSC
New options for displaying licensing badging on Google Images
Great content idea - X vs Y
How to increase your odds of getting a featured snippet
Can you see Discover traffic in Google Analytics?
Are H1 tags necessary for ranking?
How does Google use E-A-T?
Ahrefs keyword data is a little different now
New Bing Webmaster Tools
Safari no longer accepts https certificates valid for more than 398 days
Can posting fresh images on your GMB listing boost rankings?
More discussion on using keywords in your GMB description
A tip for guest posting
Quick title tag tip
Q&A - Is it ok to use the same testimonials on every page?
Q&A - Should I nofollow links to authoritative but non-relevant sites?
Q&A - Does Google use BBB ratings?
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49 min
February 19, 2020 Latest on the February 7th-14th Google Update, Local Update and More SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
The latest on the February 7-14(ish) Google update
Local Search update February 14-18
Nofollow changes go live soon
Changes made to the GSC change of address tool
Interesting observation about E-A-T and knowledge graphs
How long does it take Google to process your disavow file
Internal linking advice
More on affiliate link disclosure
You can now add more images to Google posts
Google changed their advice on adding keywords to your GMB description
Q&A: Why is this site getting more than 2 organic listings for this search?
Q&A: Why does GSC show me ranking at #7 and SEMRush at #31?
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49 min
February 12, 2020 February 7th Algorithm Update, Indexing Issues and More SEO News
In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including:
If you have two noindex tags on a page, which one will Google honour?
Early thoughts on the February 7 Google update - it’s a big one!
More discussion on the issue where pages are dropping out of the index
New GSC report for review snippets
Interesting comments from Gary Illyes on the future of nofollow
Chrome to block intrusive ads Aug 2020
Google mistakenly issued GSC verification notices for sites verifying with GTM
Problem with GMB images
Many LA law firms being reported as permanently closed
Don’t list urls or phone numbers in GMB Q&A
Interesting point about the featured snippet algorithm
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49 min

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Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice on Google Algorithm updates, tips and information to help you improve your website. During the podcast she…