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In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Kevin Gichane to discuss how to create effective niche content: What do we mean by niche content? How do you define your niche? How does niche keyword research differ from broader keyword research? And much more! Editor's note: Apologies that the audio quality isn't great for this week - we had a lot of technical difficulties duri...

Buy your free tickets on Eventbrite Search With Candour has joined forces with The SEO Mindset to bring to you a LIVE podcast titled 'How to Deal with Anxiety at Conferences' sponsored by SISTRIX and Captivate. Jack Chambers-Ward will be joined by Sarah McDowell and Tazmin Suleman , hosts of The SEO Mindset, to give you actionable tips and advice on how to deal with feelings of anxiety, for both a...

This episode was recorded live on SISTRIX's Youtube - click here to watch the video version. Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Mark Williams-Cook to discuss the latest SEO news including: Should you be regularly disavowing links in 2023? TrendWatch February 2023 Featured snippets have a new blue highlight For the full show notes and transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk

In this week's episode of Search With Candour, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined once again by Mark Williams-Cook to discuss the latest SEO news including: The latest updates about New Bing February 2023 Product Review Update Google Search Console's Bulk Export and why it's important For full show notes, links and transcript, please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by content strategist Lily Ugbaja to discuss how to create content that stands out in the soon-to-be AI-dominated SERPs. Jack and Lily discuss: What do we mean by 'the Specificity Strategy'? How to find your target audience The LEMA framework of content creation For all of the links, show notes and transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

In this week's episode,  Jack Chambers-Ward is joined once again by the one & only, Mark Williams-Cook. This week’s topics include: Bing & ChatGPT vs Google & Bard A new trending label on People Also Ask results The experimental ‘content ideas’ feature is being tested in Google Search Console All the links and show notes are available at https://search.withcandour.co.uk/

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Sodiq Ajala , Technical SEO Analyst at Second Eclipse. Sodiq gives his top five recommendations of mistakes that will rule your website out of Google's Knowledge Graph. An incomplete Google Business Profile Thin, poorly-researched content Getting low-quality backlinks Neglecting the technical 'health' of your website Under-utilising Google Se...

On this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by freelance copywriter extraordinaire Alice Rowan to talk about how to create content while not burning out. Jack & Alice discuss: Ways to plan your content campaigns How to repurpose one piece of content across multiple platforms Why gatekeeping in SEO needs to go away and much more! For the full links and episode transcript go to search.w...

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Goodness Azubuogu , Technical SEO Specialist at Trek Marketing, to discuss pagination in ecommerce including: What is pagination on an ecommerce site? Common mistakes when using pagination on an ecommerce site How do these issues affect the site's SEO? How to effectively implement pagination on an ecommerce site The full show notes and transc...

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Sarah Presch , Digital Marketing Director at Argos Multilingual , to discuss how culture can be an essential factor in marketing & SEO. Jack and Sarah discuss: Should you get your content and keywords translated? How to be aware of your cultural biases How to approach ethnic marketing within your home country Understanding different eleme...

On this episode of Search With Candour, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Tom Marriott , Digital Marketing Director at Ina4 and also known as The SEO Punk. Tom joins Jack to discuss something they have in common, working in SEO, and the digital marketing industry as a whole, as a generalist. What does it mean to be a generalist in digital marketing? Why does it seem like there are fewer generalists...

Welcome to the Search With Candour podcast, the first episode of 2023! Jack Chambers-Ward is riding solo this week to bring you the latest SEO news including: Microsoft launches new Bingbot Microsoft to add ChatGPT features to Bing search Top non-profit domains that grew in visibility in 2022 Google to introduce ChatGPT-like model for healthcare For full show notes, links and transcripts go to sea...

In the final episode of 2022, Jack Chambers-Ward and Mark Williams-Cook discuss the highlights and lowlights of 2022 including: All the Google Ranking System updates in 2022 The arrival, and limitations, of ChatGPT The launch & growth of AlsoAsked Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool API E-E-A-T SISTRIX's December 2022 TrendWatch and Trend of the Year Mark & Jack also make some predic...

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Sarah Taher , an SEO consultant and speaker based in Canada. Sara joins Jack to discuss all things entity SEO including: What is an entity? How can we "optimise our entities"? How important are entities in SEO at the moment? How can schema help tie into entity SEO? You can find full show notes and transcripts at https://search.withcandour.co....

In this week's episode of Search With Candour, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined once again by Mark Williams-Cook to discuss the latest SEO news, including: Google clarifies a few things about crawl budget optimisation How to conduct a site accessibility audit Continuous scroll is coming to desktop (in the US) The latest Helpful Content system update has begun rolling out For full show notes and transc...

In this episode, Jack Chambers-Ward and Mark Williams-Cook co-hosted a live episode of Search With Candour on LinkedIn. Jack & Mark discussed: Google Ads Paying Advertisers $100 To Enroll In Automatically Applied Recommendations Actors swapping roles in the SERPs SISTRIX's new Knowledge Graph analysis tool New free BrightLocal Academy course - “How to Create Website Content for Local SEO” (hos...

In this week’s episode of the Search With Candour podcast, Jack Chambers-Ward is reunited with Mark Williams-Cook to discuss: Google has made it easier to get products in the shopping tab Google has created a guide to their Search ranking systems Majestic’s SEO in 2023 summary A discussion about URL length & structure - does it affect your rankings? For full show notes, links and transcripts g...

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Jeff Grill , founder of Brainchild , to talk about: Creating scalable content strategies How to harness the expertise of your clients Why having your articles reviewed by topical experts is more important than ever Full show notes and transcripts available at search.withcandour.co.uk

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Daniel K Cheung , prolific SEO consultant and host of the Dreading Sundays podcast. Daniel joins Jack to discuss: The origin story of Dreading Sundays Why empathy is so important in technical SEO Understanding different types of empathy for different work relationships Learning to communicate priority tasks to non-SEOs And much more! Full sho...

On this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by digital marketing extraordinaire (and Jack's new best friend), Jamar Ramos . Jamar joins Jack to discuss: Why you should be watching All Elite Wrestling (yes, they talk about professional wrestling for a few minutes...) Jamar's transition from creative writing to digital marketing How much does representation matter in digital marketing? What...

Welcome dear listeners to this big bumper episode of Search With Candour, our Halloween Spooktacular 2022 ! Joining your (g)host Jack Chambers this week is the mortifying Myriam Jessier and shocking Stéphanie Walter . In the first half of the episode, our horrible hosts play you some of the scariest SEO stories from BrightonSEO's best and brightest SEO people, including: Steve Paine from SISTRIX (...

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Maddy Osman , the founder of The Blogsmith and best-selling author of Writing for Humans and Robots . Jack & Maddy discuss: Why it's important to write for humans AND robots Common mistakes made by SEOs that impact their writing How has AI writing affected writers in 2022 Some tool recommendations for SEOs and writers And much more! The f...

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by the incredible Olga Zarr , the founder and CEO of SEOSLY . Jack & Olga join forces to discuss SEO audits (Olga's favourite topic!) including: The first steps of auditing a new website How regularly should you audit a website? What are some of the most common things auditing tools miss? And in case you missed it, here is Olga's in-depth ar...

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Alex Hickson , Head of Digital PR at TrunkBBI to discuss: How to inspire clients to try digital PR Thinking outside the box for opportunities Breaking out of your brand bubble Full show notes, links, and transcript are available at search.withcandour.co.uk

Welcome to the Search With Candour podcast. Jack Chambers-Ward is once again joined by the inimitable Mark Williams-Cook for a live SEO Q&A! That's right, live and unedited! This episode was recorded live and broadcast via Mark's LinkedIn page . Click here to watch the video version on LinkedIn. Questions answered include: How do you decide when it's best to canonicalise multiple variants of a...