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In the final episode of season 2, Jack is joined by Petra Kis-Herczegh to discuss emotional intelligence and how it can help you in your career. Topics include: What is emotional intelligence? The types of emotional intelligence How can emotions hold us back? What can we do to improve our self reflection? What are the biggest challenges SEOs face? Subscribe to us on YouTube Check out our newslette...

Mark and Jack are back together for the final episode of 2023! Watch this episode on YouTube The dynamic duo discuss: SISTRIX's major updates and improvements during 2023 How well did their predictions about 2023 go? How many Google updates were there in 2023? What do these updates tell us what to expect in 2024? For more episodes and show notes, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

It's episode 100 of season so, to celebrate, we've got three amazing guests on this episode! Crystal Carter , Arnout Hellemans and Bibi The Link Builder join Jack Chambers-Ward to form Team Stroopwafel and discuss the SEO highlights of 2023 and SEO predictions for 2024! Topics discussed include: The best uses of ChatGPT and AI Bing AI Search Generative Experience E-E-A-T Is UGC on SERPs he...

A mythbusting duo of Jack Chambers-Ward & Morgan Petrov embark on a podcast adventure full of rants and hot takes to bust SEO myths. These SEO myths include: Page speed is everything Disavowing backlinks Anchor text ratios Google Sandbox Bounce rate as a ranking factor And much more! Check out the links and show notes at search.withcandour.co.uk. Don't forget to subscribe/follow the podcas...

Watch this episode on YouTube Mark Williams-Cook & Jack Chambers-Ward reunite once again to discuss the latest SEO news including: SISTRIX's new newsletter by Jono Alderson Google's anti-trust trial so far by AJ Kohn Google tests Notes and Follow features on SERPs (with mixed results) New discussionforum and profilepage markup Don't forget to subscribe/follow the podcast to never m...

Seb Atkinson makes his triumphant return to the podcast (originally appearing on Season 1 Episode 51 in March 2020) and joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss Interaction to Next Paint (INP). What is INP? How is it different to first input delay? What's a good INP score? How do we measure INP? What factors contribute to INP? How to get stakeholder buy-in Google's INP announcement For full sho...

Lidia Infante joins Jack Chambers-Ward for the most innuendo-filled episode of Search With Candour ever. Lidia takes Jack through her dating life and how it helped her understand customer journeys and optimisation. Understanding the Sales Pipeline: From leads (MQLs, SQLs) to opportunities and closed deals. Choosing a North Star: The guiding metric that shapes your strategy. Iterative Goal-Driven O...

SearchNorwich made its triumphant return last month so we thought we would bring you the fantastic talk from Daniel Foley Carter . Daniel takes his 20+ years of SEO experience and discusses what he believes Google's plan is with the recent helpful content updates and why the industry needs to move away from traditional SEO. Links: Sponsor: SISTRIX - SectorWatch headphones ⁠Watch this talk on t...

Watch this episode on YouTube Jack Chambers-Ward and Mark Williams-Cook are back once again to discuss the latest SEO news including: SISTRIX analysis of Google update fallout BERT vs ERNIE = Google vs Baidu Google Discover being tested on desktop devices Are LinkedIn's AI-generated articles actually helpful? Full show notes and links available on search.withcandour.co.uk.

It's that time of year once again where Myriam Jessier & Stephanie Walter join Jack Chambers-Ward for the Halloween Spooktacular! This year, the terrifying trio discuss the scariest, most nightmarish FAQs they've ever encountered. Bad FAQs: https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/faq https://sandralmuller.com/why-faqs-provide-a-poor-user-experience/ Good FAQs and guides: https://mcphee.com/pages/faqs...

Ashwin Balakrishnan , Head of Marketing at Optmyzr , joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss why resisting Google will end in failure for PPC teams. Topics include: How to structure campaigns Data inputs and outputs Fallout from Google's anti-trust trial Auction manipulation How to use AI & machine learning in PPC Oh and... Baldur's Gate 3 ! Because they love it and can't stop playing...

The Master of Markup, Dave Ojeda joins Jack Chambers-Ward on this week's episode to discuss all things schema, structured data and markup. Topics include: Is schema more or less important in 2023? The importance of schema outside of rich results What are the best tools for creating and implementing schema? For full show notes and links, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Adam Gent from The SEO Sprint joins Jack Chambers-Ward this week to discuss how to think like an SEO product manager. What is an SEO PM? What can other SEOs learn from PMs? What skills are essential for being an SEO PM? For full show notes, please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

The duo of Jack Chambers-Ward & Mark Williams-Cook reunite once again to bring you the latest SEO news, updates and hot takes including: September 2023 helpful content update SISTRIX's analysis of the HCU fallout "Links are no longer a top 3 ranking factor" - Gary Illyes from Google For full show notes please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Sarah and Tazmin from The SEO Mindset podcast join Jack to recap their live podcast from BrightonSEO. The trio gives some tips and advice about managing your energy levels at conferences and life in general. Sign up for updates from Search With Candour and The SEO Mindset here. For the full show notes and transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

It's that time of year when Jack runs around the world's biggest SEO conference and asks questions to some of the industry's best and brightest. This time, guests include: Matt Kohli Gemma Houghton - International Search Summit Alizée Baudez Kyle Rushton McGregor Sarah McDowell Check out the Neurodivergents in SEO community here. For the full show notes and transcript, check search.wit...

On this week's episode, Jess Joyce joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss coding and CMSes. Do you need a CMS to build a website? Which CMS gives you the most flexibility when it comes to coding? What CMSes should you avoid? What are the essential coding languages you should know to build a website in 2023? And much more! For full show notes & transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Ebere Jonathan joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss how to identify and analyse causes of traffic drops. This includes what data to look for, what tools to use and a lot of practical information for this common issue with many sites. Get your tickets for the live podcast on 13th September in Brighton. Full show notes & transcript available at search.withcandour.co.uk.

Watch this episode on Youtube Jack and Mark reunite to recap the month's SEO news including: Google introduces 'learn as you search' to SGE Is Google removing links from SGE? SISTRIX's new SERP update feature You can now add social media links to Google Business Profile The dynamic duo also answered questions from LinkedIn! For full show notes & transcripts, go to search.withca...

Alan Presch joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss a project where Alan helped a voice assistant understand accents more accurately. Alan & Jack discuss everything from different Irish accents, the hard work of professionals transcribers and even their record collections. For full show notes & transcripts, go to search.withcandour.co.uk

Alizée Baudez makes her return to the podcast to discuss working as a freelance international SEO consultant. Jack & ⁠Alizée discuss: Is it more difficult to work as an international freelancer rather than a local freelancer? How multi-lingual do you need to be to work with clients from around the world? Does cultural awareness ever get in the way of developing your client base? Is it best to...

Jo O'Reilly, freelance digital PR specialist, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss the state of digital PR and link-building in 2023. Why does everyone think link-building is hard? Is link building harder in 2023? How has digital PR changed in the last few years? What are the essential skills to have to do digital PR professionally? And much more. Sponsor: SISTRIX - UK Supermarket visibility Fu...

Mark Williams-Cook & Jack Chambers-Ward reunite to discuss: INP replacing FID in CWV Programmatic SEO - Just spam or a worthwhile tactic? The latest TrendWatch from SISTRIX ⁠Watch this episode on YouTube⁠ All the show links and transcript can be found at search.withcandour.co.uk

This week, Katie McDonald , SEO Specialist at Kaweb , joins Jack Chambers-Ward to rant about SEO things that are annoying them in 2023. Choosing keywords over search intent Old-school SEO reporting vs storytelling Asking the wrong questions to a new client Keeping old, low quality pages “Technical SEO has to be 100% perfect" For the full show notes and transcript, go to ⁠search.withcandour.co...

Live podcast in Brighton - 13th September 2023 Austine Esezobor , host of Democratising SEO , joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss Google's SGE and the future of SERPs. Are we heading to a new era of “zero click” SERPs? How different is SGE to when Featured Snippets were introduced almost 10 years ago? What is the long term plan for the Search Generative Experience? Will it replace the traditio...