Search with Candour

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook answering live e-commerce SEO Q&A with Nathan Lomax from Quickfire Digital, an e-commerce specialist build agency about SEO for e-commerce brands. They will cover: - How content can drive your e-commerce SEO - Common mistakes with blogging for e-commerce - Tools and data sources you can use - Subdomains vs sub-folders - Tagging and categories -...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook answering live e-commerce SEO Q&A with Nathan Lomax from Quickfire Digital, an e-commerce specialist build agency about SEO for e-commerce brands. They will cover: - Best practices for products in multiple categories - How to handle out of stock items - Are there optimal lengths for descriptions of products - How should you use variants of keyw...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Shopping Graph: Introduction and context to Google's plans around Google Shopping Graph. June Core Update: Quantitative analysis and thoughts from Lily Ray FAQ schema: Google reducing visible FAQs in SERPs Search Console Insights: New Google Search Console reports - good or bad? You can get the full transcription and links to resourc...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: June Core Update: Thoughts from the SEO community about changes being seen due to the first of two Google core updates coming in summer. Google Duplex: A new rollout of Duplex features means we need to consider the long-term strategic impact of such AI in digital. You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://s...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking to Nathan Lomax from Quickfire Digital, an e-commerce specialist build agency about SEO for e-commerce brands. They will cover: - How important is SEO for e-commerce brands? - Specific SEO for e-commerce sites vs other types of sites - Topical authority in SEO - How schema can help e-commerce SEO - SEO as a driver for "good behaviour" withi...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: LaMDA: Google's breakthrough in conversational technology Also covered: A new SERP feature being tested by Google and its relation to PAAs and MUM. AMP: Why are SEOs ditching AMP? Redirects: Core Web Vitals, redirects, and naughty SEO You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Desktop page experience: Google IO announcement confirms page experience update will come to desktop results Google Ads features : Google launches a set of new features for advertisers MUM: A 'breakthrough' in AI for Google generating results for complex queries You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://sea...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Critical Wordpress update : There's a huge new vulnerability in Wordpress that your need to patch Bing video extensions: New extensions for Microsoft Ads PPC Improving SEO audits: Brendan Bennett talks about how to improve your technical SEO audits You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandou...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Product review update : An overview of what is separating the winners from the losers Google policy changes: PPC changes for e-book publishers New Bing API: Discussing the new Bing API for URL updates Google Indexing issue reports: Google testing a new button to report indexing problems You can get the full transcription and links to...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Refinement SERPs: How this Google test can help you with your on-page SE Google product review update: Google's new refreshed algorithm for product reviews Page experience update: More than just Core Web Vitals You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Emily Brady talking all about local SEO in 2021, covering: - Ranking factors in map packs - Problems with spam in local SEO - How to make a great local SEO landing page - Schema and local SEO - How to benchmark your local SEO You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Alex Holliman from Climbing Trees, taking a live LinkedIn SEO Q&A session taking questions on: - Getting a career in SEO - Duplicate content issues - Internationalisation - Buying links - No-click SERPs - Faceted navigation - Pagespeed on popular platforms such as Wix and Shopify You can get the full transcription and links to resourc...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Gianna Brachetti-Truskawa from Startdowns.de to discuss QA in technical SEO, including: - What is QA in SEO and why does it matter? - Tools and processes for QA in SEO - How technical translation and technical SEO are similar - How to build relationships with internal teams - Advice for those getting into technical SEO You can get the ful...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Sophie Brannon from Absolute Digital Media to discuss content mapping, including: - What is content mapping and why is it important? - What are the common mistakes made with content mapping and keyword research? - What tools are agencies using for keyword research and content mapping? - Has AI changed and will it change these processes? Y...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Billie Geena from The SEO Works to discuss how to management expectations with SEO including: - What should you do when others are promising results? - Which metrics should be used and avoided for expectation management? - How can you manage expectations around zero-click results? You can get the full transcription and links to resources...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joins professional photographer Joe Lenton to talk about image SEO and photography. Together they'll cover: - Common image SEO mistakes - How certain niches in search are image-led - Alt tags are not just for SEO and the be-all and end-all of image SEO - Why stock images might be a false economy You can get the full transcription and links to resou...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Daniel Foley Carter from Assertive to discuss learning SEO via social. Together they'll cover: - The dangers of learning SEO via social media posts - Common SEO myths and misconceptions that are repeated online - How business owners can educate themselves about SEO to make better hiring decisions - Can 'SEO tests' realistically be done by...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: The SEMrush IPO: Will they be changing subscription model? DevTools Local Overrides: Improve the performance optimisation feedback loop Rich snippets: Sitewide quality factors impacting site rich snippets Pagespeed insights: Updated to HTTP/2 Shopify hreflang: A new solution for Shopify's hreflang issues You can get the full transcri...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Dixon Jones, CEO of Links and Majestic Brand Ambassador to discuss: - Google's approach to NLP and entity identification - The role of entity-based SEO vs keyword-based SEO - Creating content briefs based on entities and competitor mapping - Automated internal linking at scale with Javascript - How the InLinks platform works You can get t...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Rob Lewis who will be discussing: - The big "match changes" that are happening to all Google Ads accounts - How the Google Ads algorithm has been slowly changing - What you can do to effectively manage accounts with these changes - Future predictions for Google Ads - Core Web Vitals report delays in Google Search Console You can get the f...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Rob Lewis who will be discussing: - The iOS14 update which now covers user privacy and what impact this might have - Deep dive into how ATT may affect website publishers and advertisers - Google's new passage ranking going live and what to expect You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook discussing site monitoring with Little Warden founder Dom Hodgson. Together, they'll cover: - The importance and use cases of site monitoring - The history of Little Warden and Dom's other wild projects for charity - How companies like Google and Microsoft have dropped the ball with monitoring - Why prevention rather than cure gives the best return...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook reviewing an SEO audit and call he received suggesting that AlsoAsked.com needed toxic link removal and should host hidden content to link to other websites.  This episode is intended to show that these low-quality SEO scams are persistent in the industry and businesses should be careful in vetting both the companies and data agencies are prov...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook discussing brand SERPs and Knowledge Panels with SEO expert Jason Barnard, CEO and Founder of Kalicube. Together, they'll cover: - Why are brand SERPs so important? - Does people searching for your brand help your rankings? - Are links less important now Google is paying attention to brand? - Is the Knowledge Graph the future of SEO? - How do you g...

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Selling in YouTube: The new experimental feature that looks to bring product sales into YouTube videos. Crawl anomalies: Improvements in Google Search Console coverage reports, including the removal of crawl anomalies. News performance reports: New reports inside GSC and differentiating between news filters and news performance repor...