Search with Candour

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook talks about: 2019 Sistrix IndexWatch: Who were the SEO winners of 2019? Medium's organic fall : An overview of the investigation into Medium.com's loss of half their traffic. Listener Q&A: Questions on how to help Google trust canonical signals and link building multiple links from a single site. You can get the full transcription and links for this e...

What's in this episode? In this episode you will hear a SearchNorwich recording of Steven van Vessum giving his talk "SEO disasters: the good, the bad and the taboo". Steven explores some real-life SEO disasters and talks about how to put in place processes to both monitor and deal with issues before they become big problems. You can watch the full video the talk and see his slides at https://sear...

What's in this episode? In this episode, Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis are joined by PPC expert Sean Clark from Clark St. James and SEO expert Michael Curtis from Further to discuss search predictions for 2020. We'll talk about how trends such as voice search and AI are affecting (or not so much!) the industry and how our job roles may continue to change and evolve. You can watch the full video...

What's in this episode? In this episode you will hear a SearchNorwich recording of Lexi Mills giving her talk "Fail free content marketing that builds links and authority". Lexi takes us in detail behind the curtain of successful PR campaigns and why she doesn't feel that the "one hit wonder" PR approach is best for SEO. You can watch the full video the talk and see her slides at https://search.wi...

Mark Williams-Cook talks about: Google Quality Rater Guidelines update: How is Google combating bias in search Link disavowing : Should we be disavowing links when there is no penalty? New Google features and learning resources . You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be talking about the ins and outs of the Google Ads Optimisation Score. Does it work in your favour or Google's? What are the common traps and mistakes that businesses fall into when entering into the world of Google Ads? You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be covering: GSC page and speed reports: The new reports in Google Search Console showing rich product SERPs and CrUX speed reports. Political ads: Google's new policies on showing political ads on their platform AlsoAsked.com: An introduction to our People Also Asked tool Listener Q&A: A dive into possible uses of canonical tags on e-commerce si...

What's in this episode? In this episode, you'll hear from Andrew Smith giving actionable insight into dealing with big site SEO from his experiences with companies such as Expedia, CheapFlights and eDreams on big site SEO. Recorded on 7th November 2019 at SearchNorwich 9, Andrew goes into detail about reporting best practises, common pitfalls when dealing with big site SEO. You can get the full tr...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be talking to Andrew Smith about his experiences with companies such as Expedia, CheapFlights and eDreams on big site SEO. What are the differences between big and small site SEO? What are the specific challenges and how do you approach them? Do big sites have a free pass with Google in 2019? You can get the full transcription and links for this epis...

What's in this episode? In this episode you will hear a SearchNorwich recording of Dom Hodgson giving his talk "Adventures in outsourcing your digital marketing on the cheap". What exactly happens when you put your marketing out on Fiverr? Find out. You can watch the full video the talk and see his slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at https://searchnorwi...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be talking about: Google BERT: The biggest Google change in over 5 years and one of the biggest leaps in search technology. Google lead form extensions: Will Google's new lead form extension be the answer for lead generation sites? Bumper Ads BETA: Talking about the new Bumper Ads in BETA for Premier Google Partners. You can get the ful...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be talking about blackhat PPC! Mark and Rob will go into some depth about the rules some PPC practioners are breaking and how they are profiting from it. You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? In this episode you will hear a SearchNorwich recording of Chris Green giving his talk "Essential technical SEO learnings from launching and migrating over 120 websites". Chris goes into great detail about the importance and challenges of site migrations from both a technical and communication point of view. You can watch the full video the talk and see his slides at https:...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be talking about: Googlebot user-agent change: Exploring how an update to Google's user-agent string might cause websites some issues. Internal nofollow links: Clarifying best practise on crawl management with internal nofollow links. Q&A: We're answering your questions about PPC for franchises and on-page HTML sitemaps. You can get...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be talking about: September Core Update: Looking at the first ranking change data that is coming in and discussing what you can do about core updates. Rich snippet controls: Google's new tags that allow you to control how your rich snippet results appear for text, images and video. GSC data: Google Search Console improving data refresh...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be talking about: Google review rich results: Google's algorithm update is preventing 'self-serving' review stars from showing in SERPs GSC Breadcrumbs: A new addition to Google Search Console Microsoft Audiences: Microsoft trying to tempt publishers with new audience targeting options in open beta. You can get the full transcription and links for th...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be talking about: Google Quality Rater Guidelines: Small changes in these guidelines show a shift to Google looking to perform better at perceptual tasks. ECPC changes: Google Ads brings maximise conversion value to manual bidding Nofollow: A discussion on the interesting side effects of the recent introduction of rel=ugc and rel=sponsored tags You c...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook & Tom Haczewski will be talking about the role of User Experience (UX) in SEO. Google has been slowing moving forward with integrating UX signals into their algorithm looking at things like site speed, mobile friendliness and pop ups. Tom & Mark discuss how SEOs can do a better job by approaching UX from the ground up, rather than trying to fix sp...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook & Rob Lewis will be talking about: GMB ads : Google is now showing competitor ads within organisation's own information boxes. Average position sunsetting: Google is removing the 'average position' metric. Rob and Mark discuss the pros and cons and impact it will have on campaigns. Maximise conversion value: Google's newest automated bidding strategy....

In this episode, you'll hear a SearchNorwich recording of Daniel Brooks giving his talk "Keyword Research: Tips & tactics that generate clicks & impressions to implement tomorrow!". Daniel goes over the importance of keyword research and provides some really effective strategies to carry it out using various tools and what metrics you should be considering. You can watch the full video of...

In this episode, you'll hear a SearchNorwich recording of Eva Wilkes giving her talk "Awesome Audiences". Eva gives a great overview of audiences you can use on the Google Display Network, and then goes over strategies on how to build custom affinity audiences to give you the most control. You can watch the full video of Eva's talk and see her slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn m...

In this episode, you'll hear a SearchNorwich recording of Stacey MacNaught giving her talk "Honey, I shrunk the content marketing budget!". Stacey gives some great examples about producing low-risk content on a budget but can still drive links and interest. You can watch the full video of Stacey's talk and see her slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at htt...

In this episode you will hear a SearchNorwich recording of Lukasz Zelezny giving his talk "SEO tactics to implement tonight". Lukasz gives a detailed and insightful overview of a few his tactics to help improve organic rankings, citing his own method of keyword research, GAP analysis, WordPress plugins and more.  You can watch the full video of Lukasz's talk and see his slides at https://sear...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook gives some brief news on the Google Maverick algorithm update, Google's new #AskGoogleWembmaster shorts and Google's confirmation that there has been a technical problem with Google My Business shortnames. You'll then here from Sean Clark from Clark St. James, deliver his SearchNorwich talk on why so many companies struggle to realise a return on investme...

Episode 19: Google Shopping support and automated bidding algorithm changes What's in this episode?    Mark Williams-Cook & Rob Lewis will be talking about: Google suspending Shopping support: After a European Commission ruling, Google will no longer be offering technical or strategic help with Google Shopping campaigns. Automated bidding changes: Google has made signficant changes t...