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The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, features Chaz Edwards, Mike Milas, Sophie Allen, and Bucky Helms.
5:14 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
20:54 SEO News For The Past Week
SERP Changes and Tests
SEO Discussion
25:19 Does Google verify reviews?
34:07 Getting instant GMB verification.
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, features Mike Milas, Benjamin Olson, Sophie Allen, and Bucky Helms.
8:04 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
23:45 SEO News For The Past Week
SERP Changes & Tests
SEO Discussion
30:11 Hide address feature in Google Business Profile toggle
34:40 SEO Mad Scientist update
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, features Chaz Edwards, Brock Misner (special guest), and Mike Milas.
3:15 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
Q&A
5:34 Q&A for the guest
27:39 SEO News For The Past Week
SERP Changes and Tests
Google Says
SEO Discussion
35:56 Google’s stand on image search
46:30 SEO Mad Scientist Update
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, features Chaz Edwards, Mike Milas, and Bucky Helms.
7:17 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
29:19 SEO News For The Past Week
SERP Changes & Tests
Google Says
SEO Discussion
34:27 Changes seen in the SERPS with the latest updates.
49:14 SEO Mad Scientist update
Q&A
40:24 Do reviews affect rankings on maps?
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, features Chaz Edwards, Mike Milas, Sophie Allen, and Bucky Helms.
6:22 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
21:45 SEO News For The Past Week
SERP Changes & Tests
Google Says
SEO Discussion
24:08 Is hidden content as important as non-hidden content?
30:22 SEO Mad Scientist Update
36:49 Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Update Spiking June 23rd
Q&A
16:14 How do you put “near me” on your page? Do you put in the heading in the form of a question?
19:02 Do trust pilot reviews have any bite?
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, featuring Chaz Edwards, Mike Milas and Bucky Helms.
2:44 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
10:46 SEO News For The Past Week
SERP Changes & Tests
Google Says
SEO Discussion
15:00 The effect of the 301 Redirect on sites
19:46 What we are seeing from the core update
24:49 Getting better reviews for ranking
37:14 SEO Mad Scientist update.
Q&A
31:55 Do you guys have any experience with Google Web Stories?
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, featuring Mike Milas and Sophie Allen.
- Weekend deal: Get $20 off Voice Search options.
- Voice Search is now live for our press release services. It is included for free with Targeted media outreach, AP news brand feature and Do-Follow links. You can add it to your premium press release at $12.
- Google Title Link Algorithm Update For Multi-Language Or Transliterated Titles
4:06 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
- Voice Search is now live for our press release services. It is included for free with Targeted media outreach, AP news brand feature and Do-Follow links. You can add it to your premium press release at $12.
- Health niche guest posts are live!
- Home services will be launched on Monday next week.
- Business guest posts will be launched soon.
- Weekend deal: Get $20 off Voice Search options.
- We announced all the 11 speakers for the Local Marketing Mastermind on Monday. This means that the early bird discount has come to an end. The Mastermind will be on September 16th, 17th, 18th and the roundtable on Monday, the 19th.
- Review management for monthly managed campaigns will be live by the 4th of July sale.
- Q2 testing report will be out soon.
26:44 SEO News For The Past Week
- Google May 2022 Core Update Done Rolling Out On Day 15
- Google Title Link Algorithm Update For Multi-Language Or Transliterated Titles
- Currently, EU Publishers Can't Block US Users Without Blocking Google
SERP Changes & Tests
- Google Expands Browse By Search Features: Material, Product Line & More
- Google Search With Both Short Videos & Visual Stories (Within An Accordion)
Google Says
- Google: You Can Restrict XML Sitemaps Access To Search Engines
SEO Discussion
20:20 Movement caused by the Google Core Update
31:47 Are the drops due to using AI content?
42:06 SEO Mad Scientist update.
Q&A
34:53 As a writer who benefits tremendously from AI writing tools, can you say why is it that 99.99% of writers will or cannot use AI tools to generate quality content?
37:07 Do you think it’s a bad idea to change your website URL to the co-cache version on GBP?
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, featuring Chaz Edwards, Blake Smith (special guest), Mike Milas, and Bucky Helms.
- We had a special guest: Blake Smith from https://blakesmithy.com/. He is the #1 SEO Consultant in Australia.
- Weekend deal: Get 50% off Infographics with every purchase of 10+ hours of custom signals.
- Rumor: Apple To Announce New Search Engine Next Week
- Google Core Updates Uses Data Before Launch But May Update Data Between Launches
16:36 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
- We had a special guest: Blake Smith from https://blakesmithy.com/. He is the #1 SEO Consultant in Australia.
- Health niche guest posts are now live! Home services will be coming soon.
- Weekend deal: Get 50% off Infographics with every purchase of 10+ hours of custom signals.
- The early bird sale for the Local Marketing Mastermind tickets will end on Sunday at midnight. We have confirmed all 11 of the speakers for the Mastermind, including Eldar, Holly Starks, Terry Samuels. The Mastermind will be at St. Petersburg, Florida on September 16th, 17th, 18th and a roundtable on Monday. Buy your ticket here: https://localmarketingmastermind.live/
28:42 SEO News For The Past Week
- Google Core Updates Uses Data Before Launch But May Update Data Between Launches
- The SEO Impact Of The Google May 2022 Broad Core Update
- Rumor: Apple To Announce New Search Engine Next Week
- Google Business Profiles Bug Temporarily Drops Product Management Features For Merchant Center
SERP Changes and Tests
- Google Featured Snippet With Question Header
- Google Tests Knowledge Panel Without A Box Border
Google Says
- Google Hints Useful Nofollow Links Won't Pass Much Or Any Weight
32:12 SEO Questions/Tests
- Google SEO Question: How Much Plagiarism Percentage-wise Is Allowed?
SEO Discussion
37:27 What we think about Apple’s iSearch engine (Spotlight).
44:01 SEO Mad Scientist update.
Q&A
5:34 Q&A session for the guest.
23:38 Does the Do-Follow PR have more of a punch than the other PR offerings at web20?
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, featuring Mike Milas, Bucky Helms and Sophie Allen.
- The Red, White and Blue Memorial Day sale is live. If you spend over $5,000, get 30% off with coupon code Blue: Spend between $2,000 to $5,000, get 25% off with code White: Spend up to $2000, get 20% off with code Red. You get 5% cashback and a free targeted media outreach campaign with the White code and with the Blue code, you get 5% cashback, a free targeted media outreach campaign and access to Chaz’s private roundtable.
- Google Search Algorithm Update Tremors & Instability Continues…
- Google updating enforcement procedures for repeat violations and implementing a strike-based system:
2:45 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
- The Red, White and Blue Memorial Day sale is live. If you spend over $5,000, get 30% off with coupon code Blue: Spend between $2,000 to $5,000, get 25% off with code White: Spend up to $2000, get 20% off with code Red. You get 5% cashback and a free targeted media outreach campaign with the White code and with the Blue code, you get 5% cashback, a free targeted media outreach campaign and access to Chaz’s private roundtable.
- The health niche guest posts are now live! https://web20ranker.com/health-niche-guest-posts/#pricing
- We have FREE link and campaign recommendations.
- The early bird sale for Local Marketing Mastermind will end on Sunday next week. We have confirmed all of the 11 speakers for the mastermind, that we’ll be announcing.
18:05 SEO News For The Past Week
- Google Search Algorithm Update Tremors & Instability Continues…
- Google updating enforcement procedures for repeat violations and implementing a strike-based system:
- Ability to request a quote in some GBP categories:
- Google May 2022 Broad Core Update Is Live - What We Are Seeing Now
SEO Discussion
37:30 Google call volumes going down after the new update.
44:57 SEO Mad Scientist Update
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
The SEO world is always changing. Google is constantly making adjustments to make the platform more user-friendly and smarter, while SEO experts try to keep up with the constant changes to their system. As a company and also as individuals, we are always trying to improve our expertise. Our hope is to share our experiences and challenges in this journey.
We keep up with the SEO News, analyze it, and look for ways to position ourselves better with this new information.
This Week's Podcast, featuring Chaz Edwards, Bucky Helms and Mike Milas.
- We have the Web 2.0 Ranker Customer Appreciation Day tomorrow. You’ll get 20% off storewide + 5% Cashback on Friday only. The weekend deal for Saturday and Sunday will be 20% off store credits.
- Agency Partnership portal will be launched very soon on our resource hub.
- Google Ads Tests Replacing Ad Label With Sponsored Label
- Google May Replace FID With INP (Interaction to Next Paint) For Core Web Vitals
11:02 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
- We have the Web 2.0 Ranker Customer Appreciation Day tomorrow. You’ll get 20% off storewide + 5% Cashback on Friday only. The weekend deal for Saturday and Sunday will be 20% off store credits.
- The Local Marketing Mastermind will be on September 16th, 17th and 18th at St. Petersburg, Florida. We have confirmed several speakers and will be announcing them soon. The speakers will share intro videos and topics by 2nd June. Buy your early bird ticket at 20% off before 2nd June, when it will end.
- Agency Partnership portal will be launched very soon on our resource hub.
20:07 SEO News For The Past Week
- Google May Replace FID With INP (Interaction to Next Paint) For Core Web Vitals
- Google Search Ranking Update Monday On May 16th (Unconfirmed)
- New Form Of Google Knowledge Panel Spam Or Is This A Simple Google Bug?
- Google Shows Video Thumbnail In SERPs Without Embedding Video On Page?
SERP Changes/ SERP Watch
- Google Search Snippet "View Full List" Link
- Google Hotel Results Using Reviews For Things To Do & Review Summaries
- Google Ads Tests Replacing Ad Label With Sponsored Label
SEO Discussion
25:34 Google Hotel Results using reviews for Things To Do and review summaries
30:10 GMB calls declining while rankings remaining the same due to the new updates
39:50 SEO Mad Scientist test update
Join us every week for the latest SEO news and Q&A session with Chaz, founder of Web 2.0 Ranker, with his group of panelists, where we try to answer all your SEO Questions.
Also, Catch us Live on YouTube at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdddIHkRnbQJpSHxGKheokA
Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to The SEO Mad Scientist, where we dive deep into the ever-evolving world of SEO testing to bring you valuable and actionable insights. Join us as we uncover correlations between our latest experiments, algorithm updates, and industry shifts, providing you with the knowledge you need to stay ahead in the digital landscape.
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But that's not all. We don't just talk the talk; we walk the walk. Tune in as we candidly discuss our most recent testing results and the strategies that are making waves in the SERPs, helping you navigate the ever-changing SEO landscape with confidence.
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