Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: MHC Contest announcement - win a free newsletter subscription Why the Google de-indexing bug happened Google News Indexing issues resolved Google showing less porn Infinite scroll on desktop? Aleyda Solis AMA Lazy Loading on Chrome 76 More from Google on E-A-T for medical sites GSC monthly performance report Google can add offline inf...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: More on the June/July algorithm turbulence https://Mariehaynes.com/algo How could Google measure scientific consensus? Info from Google on Core Updates Marie’s take on the SEO Twitter drama that followed after Google linked to several SEO’s (including us!) Evergreen rendering in Googlebot Fresh Featured Snippets Disavow case study Q&A...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: July 2019 algorithm updates Are online gaming sites YMYL? MHC and the Wix SEO contest View source on mobile Are robots.txt files case sensitive? Google sending notifications re noindex in robots.txt Youtube descriptions can be featured snippets Q&A: Disavowing Spammy or Negative SEO links Request a quote in GMB GMB attributes bug is f...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: July 2019 algorithm turbulence Maverick? Can you build up E-A-T with a pseudonym? MHC’s theory on the connection between E-A-T and PageRank When will mobile first indexing be done rolling out Review Gating Important news if you lost GMB reviews GMB Q&A is now fixed Q&A: Is a roundup post a good way to build E-A-T? Subscribe to the new...

Ask Marie a question for the next episode of the podcast: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ In this episode of the podcast, Marie discusses: Jul 1-2 and July 8-9, 2019 algorithm turbulence Did Overstock.com benefit from recent updates? New info from Google on brand authority Did Bing Discover get penalized by Google? SEO Tip: What to do with old content How to become part of Google’s knowledge graph Ho...

Ask Marie a question for the next episode of the podcast: www.mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ In this episode of the podcast, Marie discusses: June 29, 2019 algorithm update More on the June 3 core update More on the June 4 diversity update More on the Daily Mail’s drop Important info on robots.txt changes New info from Google on how to tell if you’ve been moved to mobile first indexing Wayback machi...

In this episode of the podcast, Marie discusses: -More discussion on the June 3 algo update -Recent tweaks to the June 3 update - June 17-24 -Why did Mercola.com see drops? -New GSC feature for testing code -New odd knowledge panels -Does a click on a SERP feature count as a click? -Do nofollowed and disavowed links appear in GSC? -Are manual actions manually reviewed? -Company sued because of the...

In this episode of the podcast, Marie discusses: Extensive talk on the June 3 core update The June 4 diversity update Is it true you can’t recover from a core quality hit? Google will be pre-announcing algo updates Is FAQ schema bad for traffic? New Google Posts feature GMB “You’ve reached your maximum number of listings" Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Hayn...

In this episode of the podcast, Marie discusses: June 3 core update news June 4 diversity update Google bug affecting AMP pages 90 days of data in Google discover Do you need a valid security certificate for an https boost? Will new subdomains be automatically mobile first indexed? Should we be disavowing links on Bing? More on Q&A auto suggest Q&A: I disavowed 14K foreign language links and traff...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: June 3, 2019 Core quality update Possible odd local search update Google confirms they are working on improving medical search results Author E-A-T webinar Can you see past manual actions for a site? New desktop.mobile selector in Rich Results Test New help from Google on HowTo schema implementation Google testing page title length AR...

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algorithm updates: May 20-24, 2019 Algorithm updates: May 29, 2019 Author E-A-T Webinar Mobile first indexing news Favicons in SERPS Google news indexing bug is resolved Will the indexing issues cause a loss in data in GSC? News on beta testing Google’s speed report Adsense ads not displaying? New video layout in SERPS Be careful veri...

Marie discusses the latest SEO news including: May 14, 2019 - possible mild algo update Google News indexing bug (AGAIN) Google’s QRG have updated - Here are Marie’s thoughts Google’s cache is still buggy No more referrals for Google images Can you use howTo schema for recipes? GSC may show 410s as 404s Can an image on a no-indexed page get in the index? New features in Moz Keyword Explorer More o...

In this latest episode: Possible May 9 algo update Is Google gearing up for an update? New speed report coming Structured data: FAQ and How-to Top Stories news High res image opt in New Googlebot is live Incognito mode in maps Google podcasts Should we rely on URL inspection tool or cached version? Is a paid SSL certificate better? Remove duplicates in Google sheets Mail-chimp offering websites Sh...

In the latest episode of the podcast, Marie discusses: Algo Updates - Apr 27-May 1 Structured Data reports Googlebot using latest version of Chromium Google is going to index podcasts EAT and Google News Quick Lazy Loading Chrome changes for non-secure sites Disappearing manual actions No relevant search results Featured snippets showing more text Are sitemaps important? Manual action showed Reddi...

In this episode: Possible small quality update Yet another Google indexing bug Did your manual action disappear? Looks like another Google bug GSC reports back on track. Does this mean this April de-indexing bug is fixed? Perhaps not... Google says they have no plans for moving the disavow tool to new GSC. Here are our thoughts! Is Google cracking down on footer links? Eric Schmidt stepping down f...

In this week's episode: Algorithm Updates Google Announcements Official announcement of AMP real URL Google’s Daniel Waisberg talks enriching search results through structured data Google News indexing issues has been resolved AJAX/XHR calls have been added to Google’s list of things which will use up your crawl budget More images appearing in the SERPs Disavow Question: Backlink on Site A redirec...

On the agenda this week: Algo updates: April 2-9, 2019 turbulence More on the GSC de-indexing bug GSC consolidating views Javascript coming to AMP: Amp-script Amp stories - dedicated section in search GSC to include AMP story traffic Ranking at position -1??? Site:query counts Interesting info on Blockquote Is HTML to text ratio important Interesting case: Google can’t render a site’s CSS Should w...

In this podcast episode, Marie covers: No Algorithm Updates Widespread Google deindexing Lazy loading by default in Chrome 75 New data in GSC for Android Apps Changes to AMP Story results Does a 301 redirect count as a backlink? Seeing more DuckDuckGo conversions? Bolded title tags? Schema v3.5 released Product catalogs in GMB How to report a fake, unverified GMB listing FTC fines robocalling comp...

In this episode, Marie covers: Algorithm updates Canonical info in GSC More reports dropped from old GSC GMB help community Debugging Chrome for iOS New resource from Google for improving mobile experience Google+ is dead Robots.txt tip Should you delete your old properties in GSC? Folders vs parameters for paginated content If a link is not in GSC is it important? If you have both an m. and respo...

In this week's episode we discuss: Algo updates - March turbulence Rel=prev/next How neural matching differs from RankBrain Code editing for AMP pages Google on Webspam Google premier partner frauds Expandable featured snippets Fetch as Google going away How to remove a sitemap from GSC Do you need schema for a featured snippet? How does Google treat duplicate content like that of laws and other l...

Oops! I said at the beginning of the podcast that I’d talk about changes to use of rel=prev/next and subsequently forgot to talk about it. Stay tuned for more on that next week! In this week's episode we discuss: Mar 12, 2019 Core update Chrome lite pages Interesting info on url length We should avoid 500 error codes Good tips from Google on creating great product/category pages Be careful using i...

In this episode Marie covers: Algorithm updates - Mar 12, 2019 - Big Core update Algorithm updates - Mar 6, 2019 GSC Sets shutting down Mar 28 How does Google determine dates? Mobile friendly test in lighthouse Mobile friendly tip Tip on internal linking and content consolidation robots.txt is case sensitive Tip for multi-lingual sites Ahrefs tip Google on whether they prefer HTML or PDFs Advice f...

In this episode: Feb 27 - March 1 2019 algorithm updates New wording for structured data manual actions Google banning political advertising in Canada Changes to People Also Ask Icons and Top Stories Changes to SERPS for natural supplements Swipe to next for images What happens when you point unnatural links at a site and then redirect that site Is it ok to require a link? Best practices for image...

In this episode Marie covers: Feb 23-24 algorithm update MHC now taking on clients for link audits Domain-wide data in Google Search Console New Test My Site tool by Google Google Discover performance report? Chrome Scroll to Text Unlinked featured snippets Fig captions Can hidden content for the visually impaired impact rankings? Does Google adjust its algorithms for specific industries? Is it ok...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: ---- Algo updates - Feb 16, 2019 Interesting recovery story Bing algo update E-A-T confirmed by Google to be important! Google+ notifications Google Docs API Mobile app properties no longer supported in GSC New featured snippets in Google News? Troubleshoot on mobile Does hreflang give you a rank...