Mark Williams-Cook reunites with Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss and recap the most important SEO news from January 2024 including:

• Is Google search getting worse?

• The impact of SGE on organic results

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Timestamps:

00:24 - Intro

03:48 - Topic 1 - Is Google search getting worse?

21:40 - Positional (sponsor)

25:24 - Topic 2 - What impact will SGE have?

Links and resources:

• Mashable article about search quality: https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research
• Lily Ray’s tweets: https://twitter.com/lilyraynyc/status/1749413842285666367 https://twitter.com/lilyraynyc/status/1747588212300669205  
• Weekend ranking mystery or Google bug? https://ziptie.dev/blog/google-weekend-ranking-mystery-or-a-google-bug/ 
• Authoritas study on SGE: https://www.authoritas.com/blog/research-study-the-impact-of-googles-search-generative-experience-on-rankings 
• 60% of SEOs are worried about SGE https://seroundtable.com/seos-worried-impact-google-sge-36770.html