SEO 101

John Carcutt and Ross Dunn discuss several topics in Google, starting with the real-timePenguin algorithm, moving on to having competing sites in the same Webmaster Tools account. Later they bring up topics including aSearchEngineLand article on The Accuracy of Geo Targeting, plus Phone Numbers are back in Local Search listings.

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John Carcutt and Ross Dunn dedicate this wonderful episode to their lost friend Dana Lookadoo. They discuss Bing dropping link explorer, Repeat Google spammers seeing harsher penalties, and how to remove emails from search. John and Ross tell why not all SEO advice is good advice, and a few other new topics inGoogle.

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Ross Dun and John Carcutt touch on new factors of Google including webmaster tools link updates,never sending warnings about web spam, and crawling unlinked URLs to discover new content. Ross and John also share arecent video by Matt Cutts explaining that automated content in their search results is "Against Google Guidelines".

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John Carcutt and Ross Dunn discuss some recent changes to webmaster tools. They mention tools liketabcloud, microformats, and rexswain.comwhich are very useful tools for SEOs and webmaster crafters. John and Ross also bring up some of the changes in google, including the chrome browser no longer playing auto playing flash.

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Followup from John Mueller on Referral Spam; Local 3-Pack on Top of Results 93percentof the time; Google Direct Answers (a Case Study). Plus ,Google only crawls Links for pages with a 200 OK Header Response, a review of copyright protection services and a listener question

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Google 2016 !!??How much influence do they have?Both the MOZ and SearchMetrics Ranking Factor reports are out.Which one is better?Plus,

Are Desktop Sites Still Necessary?
No, Says Google's John Mueller;Google Never Indexes All your Pages;
Referral Spam: what is it?

Also, Ross Dunn and John Carcutt answer a listener question onif there is any reason to have a robots.txt file on websites where we are happy for everything to be crawled and indexed?

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Google to remove Orphaned Google+ pages; Bing Secure Search having impact on Analytics, Big Drop in Organic Search Referrals; SEO for Cortana? Does this make Bing more Relevant? Plus, MOZ Releases Their 2015 Online Marketing Survey and Google sending warnings about CSS and JS blocking, plus Google also sending warnings about Mobile friendly pages.

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Google to remove Orphaned Google+ pages; Bing Secure Search having impact on Analytics, Big Drop in Organic Search Referrals; SEO for Cortana? Does this make Bing more Relevant? Plus, MOZ Releases Their 2015 Online Marketing Survey and Google sending warnings about CSS and JS blocking, plus Google also sending warnings about Mobile friendly pages.

Top Level Domains: how Google handles them;Yahoo is getting serious again.Plus,Googles Suggestions when you first sign up for Search Console and listener question onSubmitting website links into directory where already many links are pending.

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Google: Do Not Ask for Links !!!Its sad they even have to say this in this day in age. But I guess reminders are needed. Plus, your URL should be in the same language as the content;Building a Store Locator for your site - Thinking about this for SEO and Local Search.Google: Dont change links to HTTPS

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