Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: ---- Algorithm updates - February 4th-7th, 2019 Large sites seeing big traffic drops New guidelines for Q&A pages Is Google killing off the url? Google’s new guide to rendering GSC consolidating search metrics to canonical URL Youtube making changes to recommended video More medical featured snip...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: ---- No algorithm updates Security tab in GSC New Search Advocate GSC is not going away Google+ gone as of April 2 PageSpeed tool was broken Rank well by tweeting Does SSL improve rankings? Not using Gutenberg? Remove this CSS Harmful content warning for uncommon downloads Does Google pass value...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates - More on the January 9 update Widespread AMP errors Google’s focus on the new Search Console More on mobile first indexing Featured snippets in related searches Why is Google showing empty results in searches in the EU? Structured data tool showing more warnings Do you need to...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: No obvious algorithm updates Unnatural links can hurt a site algorithmically Coding error causes Google to ignore noindex directive How to succeed in Google news How to inspect a url in GSC for a site you don’t own How long should you keep 301 redirects in place? Tips on understanding pagination...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Jan 7-9 Google Update New features in Search Console MFI notifications sent in batches Google removing comments from their blog posts Google teaming up with Automatic and WordPress Want a Google Analytics Demo account? New featured snippet appearance Chrome’s ad blocker live July 9 What is going...

In this episode: New feature for rich results Urls are here to stay Google acquires Superpod and we think that’s scary! Is it ok to use a lot of keyword anchored internal links? John Mueller’s advice on handling AMP only sites Hard advice surrounding a low quality site What does Google think when you redirect all 404’s to the homepage? Comments on featured snippets Changes to lyrics in the SERPS I...

In this episode: No algorithm updates Requiring a link is against Google’s TOS Best skills for a technical SEO to have Should you disavow odd foreign spam links? Sets in GSC Google creating a new social network? “How to” Schema being used for Slack Does Google use mentions? How many people work on search at Google?

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Dec 17 algorithm update Medic recovery case study John Mueller’s comments on Medic Mobile first indexing turns two You may have moved to mobile first indexing Supports for old GSC reports is now gone Chrome 72 Image thumbnails in related searches Google stories Discussion on toxic links E-A-T Web...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Dec 4-6 algorithm update Chrome 71 and ads API for livestreams Changes to AMP errors Google shutting down some old search console reports What SEL learned from being de-indexed More on WordPress 5.0 Google patent talks about authorship? Google Analytics bug Google Plus shutting down earlier than...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Nov 30, 2018 update? Rich results for Q&A pages Google images bug How does Google use personalization? Search Engine Land de-indexed? Are you ready for Php 5.6 and WordPress 5.0? Medic recovery by removing auto translated content? Easy way to see all of your keyword rankings New way to report spa...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: November 23-36 updates Are the latest algorithm updates connected to link quality? Zero search results for some queries Featured snippet carousels Fewer images and video carousels in the SERPS More on the Google news indexing bug Pipes or dashes in titles? Social engineering content detected Loca...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates - November 16 User comments in the Google search results? Are Google’s featured snippets ethical? Filter event listings in GSC Interesting content creation tool Healthline.com sees big drops Will Google index urls that redirect? Google help hangout tips -what does discovered, no...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates - Nov 10-12, 2018 and probably November 16 Have quality updates improved the search results? Fantastic audit information right in Chrome Does Google use info from the BBB as a ranking factor? Increase in PAA boxes More on the Google News Indexing issues Be careful with rel=“prel...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Oct 31 and Nov 5 Algorithm Update Quality hit recovery story New features on Bing Chrome 71 changes Can removing spammy UGC cause improvements in rankings? Difference between People also ask and People also search Is domain age a ranking factor? Comments are a ranking factor GSC ranking stats in...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Oct 21-24 algorithm update - related to links? Interesting connection between Penguin and Medic Double featured snippets Having trouble being seen in Google news? Lost your rich snippets? Search Console notifying users of slow pages Does the location of content on a page matter? Two ways to see h...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: October 15, 2018 algorithm update Is any site that sells products YMYL? Adding content to local pages can help improve rankings Mobile First Indexing cache bug is fixed Tips from Aleyda Solis on internationalization in SEO Chrome 70 has some interesting changes How many htaccess redirects are too...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: -Confirmed core quality update - likely all about trust. https://www.mariehaynes.com/the-september-27-early-october-algorithm-update-was-likely-about-googles-ability-to-assess-trust/ -Are these updates related to mobile first indexing? -Google Plus shutting down -More PAA boxes in search results...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm Updates - September 27 and October 1 Google bug for urls with a "+" in them Authority is a confirmed ranking factor Can a Panda hit site recover? Does it matter how many noindexed pages you have? How long does it take a page to get reindexed after an accidental robots block? Does Google...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates Bug in GSC indexing status When you get the MFI email, when did the switch happen? Above the fold - how is it measured with mobile first indexing? Updates to Google search What are those blue checkmarks in the SERPS? How long will it take for all sites to be moved to Mobile firs...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Sep 17 Algorithm Update Sep 8-11 possible local update Do the Quality Raters’ Guidelines really reflect what Google’s algorithms do? More sites moved to mobile first indexing Open governance for AMP No more public submission of urls for Bing IQ bubbles in featured snippets How to block Google fro...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: -Algorithm updates - Sep 8-11 - Possible update -GSC error reporting is wrong -Manual actions can expire -Chrome 69 is live - and SEOs don’t like it! -Is it ok to scrape Google? -Example of a big site improperly using a canonical -Can whitespace cause page layout demotions? -New type of manual ac...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm Updates - more info on the impact of the July 31 local update Manual actions viewer is now in beta GSC Is author E-A-T really that important? Is it ok to get a followed link by sponsoring a local team? Should you be using schema to add dates to your articles? An example of a really good...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: -Latest on the August 1 update -Possible August 22 and August 27 small update? -Changes to how GSC reports data -More changes in video carousels -100,000 links coming to you soon in GSC -Is it ok to redirect a lot of urls to your home page? -When Google comments on your PBN strategy -Can low qual...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: The latest on the August 1 "Medic" Update Possible algorithm update August 17/18 Links report now available in Google Search Console Beta New expanded featured snippets Another tip for finding content on your site that Google considers lower quality Does it matter where your content is positioned...

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: The latest on the August 1 (Medic) update Possible update August 13, 2018 23 Questions for Panda hit sites GSC additions Related searches now in image search Changes for Q&A sites in SERPS Disavowing entire TLDs? Local SEO: View previous posts in Knowledge Graph Local SEO: Door Dash ads now in Ca...