Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: More on the February algo turbulence Google’s new nofollow changes are live People are still having trouble getting new content indexed Google planning to switch all sites to Mobile First Indexing soon New tips from Google on best practices for News coverage Free access to Google’s advanced Hangouts Meet video conferencing New Yout...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: Continuing ranking shifts throughout February Is Coronavirus interfering with your client’s traffic patterns? You can now export more data from GSC New options for displaying licensing badging on Google Images Great content idea - X vs Y How to increase your odds of getting a featured snippet Can you see Discover traffic in Google...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: The latest on the February 7-14(ish) Google update Local Search update February 14-18 Nofollow changes go live soon Changes made to the GSC change of address tool Interesting observation about E-A-T and knowledge graphs How long does it take Google to process your disavow file Internal linking advice More on affiliate link disclosu...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: If you have two noindex tags on a page, which one will Google honour? Early thoughts on the February 7 Google update - it’s a big one! More discussion on the issue where pages are dropping out of the index New GSC report for review snippets Interesting comments from Gary Illyes on the future of nofollow Chrome to block intrusive ad...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: Possible minor updates on January 27 and February 3, 2020 Is Google dealing with low quality content even before it gets indexed? More info from Google on the use of affiliate links Is Google suppressing sites that give potentially harmful information about coronavirus GTM verification in GSC is fixed Right sided featured snippets...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: The latest on the January 2020 core update January Featured Snippet changes Reconsideration requests are taking a long time URL removals are back in GSC Favicon changes in the SERPS Can a missing favicon be a sign of a core update hit? Google maps slows down page speed Can you use Javascript 301’s? Do links in PDFs pass PageRank? P...

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-116/ The latest on the January 13, 2020 Core update Many affiliate sites were hit by the January Core update Was spam deindexed with the January Core update? Important info for recipe sites Legacy mobile app properties for GA shutting down Changes to online shopping Ch...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: January 13, 2020 Core Algorithm update Chrome will still block push notifications Improvements to the rich results tester New features for Google Travel Is Google handing out more manual actions lately? Desktop results are going to look different soon What your headlines say about your content Interesting Disavow case study Link build...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: December 26, 2019 - possible minor algorithm update? Conclusion of the Wix SEO competition MHC now has a company Twitter handle Issues with the url parameter tool in GSC New Data Studio released Why do we sometimes see >2 results for one company on Page 1 now that we are supposed to have diversity? Reconsideration requests are taking...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: No obvious algorithm updates Interesting thoughts on changes to the Knowledge graph What’s happening in our Wix SEO competition BERT affects 10% of queries world wide How Google uses machine learning in search Google is using machine learning in Google News Site: not working in Google news Doorway page info Quotes from Aleyda Solis’ i...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algorithm updates - nothing obvious this week Quality updates can affect different subdomains More on the Nov 8 update and outbound links BERT live in many more languages now BERT is used by Google to analyze page content Robots.txt experiment - can a page be indexed if blocked in robots.txt? Updated Quality Raters’ Guidelines - here...

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Was there a Google update this week? More info from Google on the November Local Search Update (Bedlam) The latest on our Wix SEO competition - https://www.wixseolovers.com Sundar Pichai now CEO of both Alphabet and Google New message interface in GSC Google often ignores links from spammy sites When Google picks the...

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: November algorithm turbulence The November 8 update: Should you disavow? New GSC reporting for product pages Recipe sites suffering due to new rich results previews Can you remove a link by blocking the target page in robots.txt? More on “indexed, though blocked in robots.txt” If you have an AMP and non-AMP version wh...

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: More on the November 8, 2019 Google algorithm update Possible update on November 11, 2019 The latest on the Bedlam update (local update November 5) Google may remove your organic listing if you have a featured snippet Rendering counts against your crawl budget Tip re structured data use What to do with mixed content D...

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: November 8, 2019 algorithm update - quite possibly a link quality update November 4-5 local update Recipe sites still having issues getting images indexed We’re hiring! More from Google on Page Speed Google adding locations in title tags How to know when to use the disavow file Does Geo-targeting in GSC mean you won’t...

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: November 3, 2019 - possible quality tweak The most recent BERT info that is important to SEOs Summary of Dawn Anderson’s post on BERT - What SEOs need to know https://searchengineland.com/a-deep-dive-into-bert-how-bert-launched-a-rocket-into-natural-language-understanding-324522 Does Google have a BERT score? Does Goo...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: October 21, 2019 update - is it connected to BERT? Examine’s partial recovery What you need to know on BERT What are the effects of losing rich result enhanced searches? Is Google still pushing more image thumbnails on desktop? Youtube’s “in this video” timestamps are appearing now Google chooses the timestamps for your pages New FTC...

It's been 2 weeks since the last podcast, so there is lots to discuss in the episode. This week Marie covers: -Many tips Marie learned at Pubcon Vegas and SearchLove Boston -New user strings used by Googlebot -New change of address tool in GSC -Poss small Google update October 14-19, 2019 -Indexing issues October 16, 2019 -Structured data for Google Assistant -Tips for winning featured snippets -I...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: September 24-30 (approx) core quality update Was there a local component to the core quality update? Did the Daily Mail recover from their June 3 hit? Google fixed an error causing people to get breadcrumb validation problems Can Google read text in images? Does your agency publish its address? More snippet control for webmasters Are...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algorithm updates - September 24-27, 2019 (approx) core update announced September 17, 2019 - Probably a quality tweak Aug 22-29, and September 13 - probable link related update The latest on Starmageddon Fresher data in GSC New snippets to use New info in GSC on breadcrumbs Changes for European press publications Submit a question fo...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Possible quality updates September 9 and September 13, 2019 The leased Subdomain update is likely live Changes to review star schema to prevent “self serving” reviews being marked up Bing’s stance on rel=sponsored and rel=ugc Changes to page title length? Should you now be nofollowing disavowed links? Great disavow case study Should y...

In this episode Marie hosted a live version of the Podcast for our 100th episode: Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXna5NGvwuM

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Aug 22-29 - possibly a big link related update 100th episode is coming soon - free paid version for everyone, contest and live podcast next week Auto DNS verification with Google Reminder - no index no longer supported in robots.txt Analytics for AMP stories How to check GSC to see if you have been moved to Mobile First Indexing Googl...

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algo update: Aug 19-21 - small tweak Algo update affecting coupon sites Can you remove a manual action by disavowing alone? More from https://WixSEOLovers.com Changes to GSC API Test of Featured Snippet Anchors Difference between Mobile First Indexing and Mobile Friendliness Do affiliate links need to be nofollowed? C...

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Aug 12 and 18 algo tweaks Leaked documents from Google give us some info on what’s going on with core updates More on scientific consensus in search What we’re doing to win the Wix SEO Competition (https://wixseolovers.com) Changes to AMP share buttons More indexing issues Googlebot has caught up to Chrome 76 College...