In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook & Jack Chambers talking about:

Page Experience update for desktop: Google has confirmed that Page Experience update will be rolling out for desktop next month.

Tracking featured snippets & redirect chains: Valentin Pletzer's cool bit of JavaScript allows tracking of text fragments (and therefore featured snippets) and redirect chains in Google Analytics.

IndexNow: A new WordPress plugin for IndexNow for Bing.

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

That's a wrap for season one!

Thank you to all of the guests that have appears on season one of Search with Candour:

We'll join you for season 2 in early 2022, where Mark Williams-Cook will be joined by co-host Jack Chambers.

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about:

Title updates: Google has made some amends to title element generation in SERPs as well as details on specific use-cases.

Cloudflare signed exchanges: Cloudflare has launched one-click SXG allowing webmasters to improve performance.

Google Ads updates: New advertiser pages and attractions ads for ticket sellers.

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking to Will Critchlow about:

SEO A/B testing: How A/B testing can work for big websites

Google's algorithm shift: Is a more machine-led approach making SEO harder and testing more important than ever?

Enterprise vs SMEs: Can SMEs actually do A/B testing and is it worth it?

Are we actually bad at SEO?: Why do so many experienced SEOs disagree on fundamentals

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about:

AI content that ranks: Thoughts on a new breed of sites that are churning out AI generated pages taht rank

Title woes: E-commerce sites that are tanking due to the Google title update

SEO Q&A: Listener SEO Q&A

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about:

SEO resources, tools, guides: Some useful tools and guides to help you with Google's title rewrites, javascript indexing and local SEO.

Duplicate links: Majestic is upping its game by introducing new duplicate link analysis.

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook SEO with Nathan Lomax from Quickfire Digital, an e-commerce specialist build agency about SEO for e-commerce brands talking about page speed and performance

They will cover:

- How much of a ranking factor is page speed?

- What is the difference between performance and speed?

- Why are Core Web Vitals special?

- How do you go about improving performance?

- and much more!

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about:

Google mass title rewrites: Google has been changing the titles shown for lots of websites - how are they doing this and why do some of the results look so bad?

Passage indexing: Search tweak or breakthrough that will change how we do SEO? 

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about:

Schema tools: Google pushing for Rich Result Tool usage despite saying it uses "non-supported" schema

Author.url: Google has a new recommended property to identify authors

Core Web Vitals tech report: A quantitative look at how tech stacks are performing with Core Web Vitals

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about:

Safe Search Page Experience: How much does Google's removal of Search Search from the Page Experience Signals mean?

Tie-breaking: Are Core Web Vitals an important ranking factor, a tie-breaker, or... Does it depend?

Canonical images: Do you get any SEO benefits from other sites uploading images you created?

Rendering and SEO tips: An admission on JS rendering and unsolicited SEO tips.

You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk