In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including:
Sep 17 Algorithm Update
Sep 8-11 possible local update
Do the Quality Raters’ Guidelines really reflect what Google’s algorithms do?
More sites moved to mobile first indexing
Open governance for AMP
No more public submission of urls for Bing
IQ bubbles in featured snippets
How to block Google from crawling PDFs
Does WordPress give you a ranking advantage?
More from Google on whether content pruning can help
More info from Google on whether guest posting for links is ok
Screaming Frog update
Opening day info in GMB
Can you run a contest to get more reviews?
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Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.
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