Search with Candour

What's in this episode?    Mark Williams-Cook will be talking about: Local SEO & Google My Business bugs: Some great tips for UK businesses to get ahead in map results and the Google My Business bug that has been making businesses profiles get suspended. Schema abuse: A quick look at sites that are abusing schema to force rich results in the SERPs Google SERP experiments: A new "peop...

What's in this episode?     Mark Williams-Cook will be talking about: Robots.txt changes: How Google are dropping support for undocumented features of robots.txt parsing in September and what effect this may have. Diversity update: New analysis by SearchMetrics on how the Google diversity update is impacting sites Keyword research with Python: A look at a free, new keyword research tool...

What's in this episode?    Mark Williams-Cook will be taking a dive into the world of Google penalties! We'll be talking about how Google handles and processes penalties, what the most common types of penalty are and why it might seem like Google is doing nothing about that pesky cheating competitor! You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https...

In this episode, you'll hear a SearchNorwich recording of Andrew Martin giving his talk "How to use schema to enrich search results and improve your CTR". Andrew gives a clear and concise introduction to structured data, schema.org and what you need to be doing to get on the front foot in the SERPs. You can watch the full video of Andrew's talk and see his slides at https://search.withcandour.co.u...

What's in this episode?    Mark Williams-Cook will be discussing: Latest advice on the Google core algorithm update: Google has provided a few specifics on how webmasters should be looking at the core algorithm update. Should we trust Google? A look at some recent cases were following best practise has not been helpful. Listener Q&A Your questions answered on if where your website is...

What's in this episode?  Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be discussing the Google core update and a new, unannounced change to Google's location targeting that will be affecting your campaigns. Google core update We'll be covering the data that's come in about the Google update and what we've seen so far. PPC location update Google has quietly updated how location targeting works on all...

In this episode, you'll hear from Jack Bamfield of Verve Search on how to run a successful link building campaign from ideation to outreach. Jack gives real-world case studies and provides templates of his own outreach email campaigns. You can watch the full video of Jack's talk and see his slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at https://searchnorwich.org

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be discussing how to combat PPC click fraud and what's changing with the new Google SERP. New Google SERP Google are changing how ads look and introducing favicons into search results PPC Click fraud How can you identify and combat click fraud? You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://se...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be discussing the Google Marketing Live 2019 event announcements including: Discovery ads Google's new native ad format appearing over many properties Gallery Ads Coming out of beta to the top of a SERP near you New Shopping Experience Is Google finally gearing up to go toe to toe with Amazon? You can get the full transcription and link...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be discussing: Google I/O New features coming to Google Search such as AR and Google Lens updates Evergreen Googlebot What does Googlebot's version update mean for Javascript and SEO HowTo and FAQ structured data Google's support for HowTo and FAQ structured data on search and assistants You can get the full transcription and links for this episode i...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be discussing: Google Search Console bugs There was a 16 day data loss within Google Search Console and errors with manual action reports. Bing Ads rebrand The Bing Ads platform is rebranding to Microsoft Ads and changing focus. Google XSS exploits A newly released zero-day exploit that allows blackhats to inject links and content onto third party we...

In this episode, you'll get some insight into techniques that blackhat SEO that have been used to rank in Google and make the people prepared to do them a lot of money. Listening to Craig Campbell will give businesses insight into what their competitors may be doing, how to protect themselves and maybe some inspiration to think outside the SEO box. You can watch the full video of Craig's talk and...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be discussing: Yoast Schema Yoast have just published version 11 of their plugin claiming they have "solved" schema, by tying together the graph for you. Google AMP signed exchanges Search results for AMP can now display the hosting domain, rather than Google's properties using signed exchanges. You can get the full transcription and links for this e...

 What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be discussing: Google de-indexing and other bugs A dive into the massive bug that caused millions of pages to be dropped from Google's index and what you can do about it, as well as a look at Google's rich data and cache bugs that are also causing headaches for site owners. Google Search Console updates New reports in the GSC interface, includi...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be discussing: - Sub-site links in Google Google appears to be testing a new category of 'sub' site links on mobile. Triggered on brand ads, Google offers searchers the opportunity to navigate directly to products from a vertical accordion. - Google replacing audience keywords with custom intent audiences Rob will explain the different...

The special holiday (well, Mark's holiday at least) episode! In this episode, you'll hear a recording from the SearchNorwich meetup of SEO expert Andrew Martin giving his talk on how to win SEO results with schema. Google told us last year that schema was on of the two most important things to focus your SEO efforts on and just in the last episode we highlighted how some SEOs were exploiting schem...

In this episode, Mark Williams-Cook will be talking about: - Pagination problems There is a significant pagination bug present in the WPEngine system and Google have updated their best practise advise regarding pagination. - Date published abuse Google reaffirm best practise for articles using datePublished and dateModified as some SEOs cite concerns Google may not have a grip on this as publisher...

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be discussing: - Google Ads Shopping Updates Google is merging Google Images with the standard Search Network for Shopping Campaigns, this means you can no longer opt-out of having shopping ads showing on Google Images.  - Apple's ITP v2.1 is going to disrupt Analytics The new Intelligent Tracking Prevention going live in Safari 12...