This episode touched on key elements of local SEO such as fake reviews, Google Maps, building reviews and new guidelines around review-gating, Google QA, tips on Schema markup, and much more.

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This episode spread into several areas including defections from Google to Apple resulting in a new Head of Google Search, a fantastic April Fools joke on SEOs, the results of a great “ask me anything” (AMA) at Reddit with Google’s John Mueller, and questions from our listeners.

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This week’s episode got a little nerdy as John and Ross delved into some interesting insights on the mobile first index roll out, Google’s efforts to radically speed up the web with new standards, and a fascinating break down of a Google vulnerability that would have had been a blackhat’s wet dream.

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Today’s show follows news of SEO 101’s Google Plus Community surpassing 10,000 followers. Ross and John discuss interesting data shared at the latest SMX West about voice search, Google’s testing of zero-result search pages (now stopped), and Google’s confirmation of a recent core update and what it means.

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Find out how you stack up to new industry benchmarks for mobile page speed. Stephan Spencer and  The Ultimate Guide to bot herding and spider wrangling P1. Google’s Not Perfect .. Bend Oregon was Missing for a while. Over 60% of Google Search AMP Clicks Go To Non-News Site (From Feb). John Mu clears up the differences in URLs with trailing slashes. Always a Risk of Losing Rankings when moving a site.

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The hosts discuss the intriguing results of a voice search ranking factor study by Backlinko, followed by more news on Google’s Mobile First Index, handy new mobile tools from Google, and some Mueller Files.

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This show covered a wide variety of SEO topics including the pending Chrome browser update, Google’s new efforts to improve WordPress, a compliment from John Mueller, a new AMP story feature, questions from listeners, and more.

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John and Ross welcome fellow SEO veterans Doc Sheldon and David Harry on the show to discuss a frighteningly impressive website hack that is designed to hijack SEO results. The discussion moves into other interesting findings in SEO audits, improving page speed, and more.

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Google My Businesses QA is the topic of Discussion as Ross Dunn and John Carcutt welcome back Mike Blumenthal from GetFiveStars.com. They discuss Google Updates GMB Websites to Include Posts as they Pass 1.25 Million Sites Created and how My Business Now Officially Supports Video.
We also learn about a PowerPoint presentation of his QA research, the announcement of a new product release and his take on Future of Local: How does he see Voice Search impacting Local in the long run? Does QA have a chance to act like the Answer Box does related to Voice Search?

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On this first episode of 2018, John and Ross discuss the changes related to the December 12th Google Maccabee Update and a future rumoured update. They also delve into the first official release of Google Assistant Voice Search Guidelines and what they mean for SEO. Lastly, a few pieces of relevant news from John Mueller and a discussion about accepting cryptocurrency as payment in the realm of SEO.

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