GoogleBot has had a significant upgrade bringing it’s technology in line with the latest versions of Chromium. The hosts also discuss Google’s rolling integration of podcasts in search results, issues with Google Search Console, a new ‘How-To’ for structured data markup, and more. The episode is topped off with answers to more great questions from the SEO 101 Facebook Group.

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Google’s de-indexing issues did not clear up quite as quickly as they made it out to. Ross broadly shares some findings from a recent e-commerce SEO audit, and the gents discuss some Mueller files followed by some great questions from listeners.  

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Google surprised the SEO community with serious issues with it’s index when it seemingly de-indexed up to 4% of its total index arbitrarily. The hosts discuss this along with it’s supposed correction, issues with Google Search Console still showing, along with the new Discover Report. Next up, Matt Cutts makes a great suggestion, Ross and John touch base on a couple of key basics on redirects and link reports, and they answer three excellent questions from the new SEO 101 Facebook Group.  

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John Carcutt goes back to Advance Local, and Ross and John discuss the likelihood that AHREFs will create a worthy Google competitor as they claim. The show moves into some shorter stories on everything from Matt Cutt’s honeypot traps, to the potential for accents in URLs to cause problems at Google. Last up, the gents answer a couple questions from the already very active SEO 101 Facebook group!  

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John and Ross discuss the scraps of what is known about the March 2019 Core Update at Google, and the definition and use cases of neural matching versus Rankbrain at Google. The SEO 101 Facebook Group now has 61 members and growing, and the hosts welcome questions to answer on the air. Lastly, some Mueller files are noted along with one about rel=next and rel=prev that really gets John and Ross ranting. 

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The gents discuss SEO for image search courtesy of Gary Illyes' keynote at PubCon, the questionable value of Moz’s Domain Authority metric, the Google Automobile Knowledge Panel, and more on SEO for JavaScript sites. Following that, they dig into some Mueller files and multilingual SEO for images.  

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Google speaks to its potential use of click through rate in its organic algorithms, how to properly optimize for paginated content, how it handles your money or your life searches, and more. Ross and John announce the new SEO community group on Facebook - it’s new home now that the Google Plus community is close to shutting down. The new community URL is https://www.facebook.com/groups/seo101podcast/   

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Google’s Gary Illyes was kind enough to submit to an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit recently. John and Ross review the many SEO questions and answers for listeners while providing their own thoughts.  

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Google Search Console is receiving a long long overdue improvement that consolidates properties and favors canonical URLs. Ross Dunn and John Carcutt discuss a pending update to Yoast, a new Google Useragent, link cruft, UTM, and much more.  

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Interesting Google local pack functionality, a new setup for service area businesses, and the benefits of Google Posts kick off this episode. The hosts then delve into some fascinating Mueller files as of late and answer three great SEO questions from listeners.  

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