Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: August 17, 2020 - possible Google update Do keywords in your url help with rankings? The value of being in Wikipedia SEMrush site crawls Some nofollowed links may be passing signals now Is it cloaking if you hide tracking pixels? Google might need to reveal info about algo updates Q&A: If a site that links to me gets s...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Odd turbulence in the algo continues - Aug 15/16 glitch? SEMrush Sensor tips Fast pages to be labelled in Chrome Search Console Insights beta ScrollToText Fragments now appearing in GSC What you need to know about using machine translated content Does Google monitor sites that file a disavow? Do outbound unnatural link...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: The great outage that looked like a massive Google update What do we know about the algo turbulence July 21/27, 2020? Important news if you use the GSC API Did Google really say that guest post links have zero value? Important thing to know about Cumulative Layout Shifts (CLS) How many sites would pass Google’s Core We...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Two minor Google updates recently (most likely) Using SEMRush to analyze Pinterest in the May core update New info from Google on how comment quality can hurt or help your site Manual actions may be handled differently at Google now Local SEO: No significant updates Local SEO: New GMB attribute - “black owned” Local SE...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Possible small update July 23 Web stories Page Speed info we learned from Martin Splitt and Eric Enge’s talk Important info for sites with ugc Q&A: How to trim down a massive disavow file Q&A: Should you put dates on your blog posts and articles? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 143:
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In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: No significant algorithm updates this week Google discover documentation updated to show that E-A-T is important Google’s latest move to block content that contradicts scientific consensus Mobile first indexing deadline has been moved Site: issues at Google Issues with FAQ markup appearing less frequently Local SEO: Q&...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Possible small update July 6, 2020 New reference to E-A-T in Google’s documentation on Discover Image search drawing entity info from Knowledge Graph What we learned from Sistrix’s study on CTR Should you disavow links from scraped articles? What if a captcha is slowing your site down? Is one site better than two? Are...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Detailed discussion on the June 22/23 “government” update The Rich Results tool is replacing the Structured data testing tool (and SEOs are not happy about it) Clarification from Google on what happens when you file a spam report We learned a LOT from Bing’s updated webmaster guidelines Google may be making more change...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Possible update June 22/23 promoting authoritative sites? Google updates their How Search Works documentation More on Google’s free product listings How to leverage your competitors’ scroll to text results Can irrelevant links hurt you? Will adding hreflang help you rank better? More on the Disqus comments not being in...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Possible Google update June 23? Google glitch with indexing Disqus comments How To Schema producing rich results again Why did this site see no uplift after building 109 links through HARO and other methods? Could Google be selectively choosing which links to pass PageRank through? How to verify if your site has been m...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: June 7-9 algorithm turbulence Another hint from Google that might explain why you’re struggling to get content indexed More from Google on the nofollow changes Recent manual action removals at MHC How to monitor performance of Recipe Structured Data How-To schema testing appears to be over Can rel=sponsored and rel=ugc...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: A Possible algorithm update today? What does it mean now that Prabhacker Raghavan is the new head of search at Google? What we learned from the Google webspam report Bing has a new backlink tool Bing site scan Google is now highlighting text on a page that was in the featured snippet you clicked - you can disable this...

In this special episode of Search News You Can Use, Marie Interviews Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, John Mueller! Just prior to their conversation, Marie discusses some SEO new including: - Core web vitals announced as a future ranking factor https://www.mariehaynes.com/core-web-vitals/ - Was there a tweak to the Google core update? In the full interview with Google’s John Mueller they dive into...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: The latest on the May core update Have search results improved since the May core update? And an interesting theory that could help you rank really well. **John Mueller is our guest next week!** New podcast from Google Webmasters Was there a Google update tool Are robots.txt directives case sensitive? Do unlinked brand...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: The latest on the May 2020 core update Exciting guest joining the MHC podcast soon! Chrome to block resource heady ads Support for Guided Recipes has arrived Pages with minimal text can still rank well Index selection is closely associated with space and content quality Infinite scroll can cause indexing issues Google...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: MHC’s early analysis of the May 2020 Core update New - Rising Retail Categories by Google Google is displaying date and creator of Youtube videos rather than the article itself Robots.txt is always obeyed by Google Updating your title tag to the current year is not enough Geotargeting does not restrict a site to only b...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: Early thoughts on the May 2020 core update How to stay up to date on algorithm changes How to determine whether your traffic changed due to an update or Coronavirus Web Vitals from Google GSC now supports Special Announcement structured data Gary Illyes on the importance of page speed Does old, out of date content bring down Google...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: No significant algorithm updates this week (but many changes due to covid-19) GSC adds copy to clipboard button New how-to schema appearing in SERPS Should you link internally across topic silos Tips for using Google trends Http images could be harming your site Can non-owners submit indexing requests in GSC? Using html and CSS to...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: The current impact of COVID-19 on the SERPS Google can move to prefer authoritative sites in times of crisis Google shopping free for all merchants Google had another indexing issue - Apr 21 We’re seeing more YouTube videos in featured snippets Study: Does removing featured snippets result in less traffic? Do all of your hreflang a...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: Does user search behavior during COVID-19 impact rankings? More from Google on whether E-A-T is a ranking factor How Bing ranks websites Google launching journalism relief fund Google started a blog series featuring case studies Bing has max-snippet and other features now More from Google on whether guest posts are unnatural More f...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: In depth look at how Coronavirus is continuing to affect search patterns Will Google stop pushing core updates during this crisis? New ways to highlight COVID-19 announcements in Google Search Google is temporarily rolling back same site cookie labelling Some SERPS have featured snippets lower down on the page now Google is testing...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: Possible Google update March 23, 2020 (and maybe March 27?) Weekly poll - how is Coronavirus impacting your search traffic? Are you seeing a drop in leads due to Covid-19? How to pause your business online in Google Search New info from Google for health sites re Covid-19 content Update on Chrome release timeline New GSC features I...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: The current impact of the Coronavirus on SEO Examples of businesses that are adapting in this hard time Chrome 81 is delayed Insecure images now blocked by Chrome New Google resource for Covid-19 Right sided featured snippets have mostly all been moved Important info for sites using urls with anchor fragments Hosting companies may...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: Possible small update March 10, 2020 Discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on businesses, SEO companies and more Bing may be pushing out more algorithm updates lately GMB and Google Ads support may be unavailable for a while New schema for COVID-19 info sharing Increase to AMP CSS limit Youtube video review is all machine learning f...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: Do you need an SSL certificate on a site that you are going to redirect? Coronavirus is likely affecting your site’s traffic March 3-7 possible Google update Mobile first indexing soon to be rolled out to 100% of websites Google assistant can now read articles aloud on your browser More “in this video” in the SERPS PDFs in mobile S...