In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: A Possible algorithm update today? What does it mean now that Prabhacker Raghavan is the new head of search at Google? What we learned from the Google webspam report Bing has a new backlink tool Bing site scan Google is now highlighting text on a page that was in the featured snippet you clicked - you can disable this apparently Are homepages now eligible for rich results? Should we be optimizing for user intent? Is a link still a good link if it points to a 404 page? Discussion on Google crawling RSS feeds A tip for news sites managing the indexability of their content Marie’s thoughts on SEMRush being called out for selling links Google cutting down on Garage Door spam Do keywords in your GMB Q&A impact ranking? Q&A: A foreign site just linked 500 spammy backlinks to my images. Disavow? Q&A: Should I hire a medical writer? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 136: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-136 Submit a question for the next Q&A: https://Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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