The SEO Mad Scientist

Episode 68 Table Of Contents  Special Guest: Victor Perez – Core Update Complete – Request Indexing Tool Back 1:00 This Week’s Special Guest: Victor Perez 5:15 SEO Mad Scientist Update: Removing different variables on GMB listing to see how it affects rankings 15:30 Weekly Update (Dec 25, 2020) • End Of Year Holiday SEO – Save Big On SEO • 10% of All Sales on Friday 12/25 Donated to Make A Wish and Get a Web 20 Xmas Stocking 23:38 SEO News Overview (Dec 25, 2020) 24:45 Core Update Complete   Don’t Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/

Episode 67 Table Of Contents  Special Guest: Bucky Helms – Danny Sullivan: Core update goes out page by page to the entire index – SEOAsked.com – Portal To Search For Google SEO Q&As On Twitter – Google Tests New Local Pack User Interface Buttons – Google My Business Call History Report Shows Answered & Missed Calls – Google Structured Data Testing Tool Moving To Schema.org And so much more! 3:05 Weekly Update (Dec 18, 2020) • SEO Mad Scientist Update: Testing GMB Products and Services • Agency Partnership Program (Updated) • End of Year Sale is Coming Up • DFY SEO/Link Building Campaign and get 10% OFF the first month and 5 Hours of Custom Signals for the Life of the Campaign. 33:05 SEO News Overview (Dec 18, 2020) 38:05 Google Core Update and Web20Ranker Services 47:40 Google My Business Call History Report Shows Answered & Missed Calls 50:58 Google Deprecating the Street View App

Episode 66 Table Of Contents  – Core Update Continues to Roll Out – Google Guaranteed Testing New Badge Design – Google Search Testing Taller Shopping Ads – ​Google’s John Mueller Gives SEO Clues To Site Owner And so much more! 3:50 Weekly Update (Dec 11, 2020) SEO Mad Scientist Update: Multiple Organic tests are going on GMB Masterclass on Dec 15 (Don’t forget to Join) Link Building Guide will be out Next Week Holiday Sales is Coming Up… So be Ready 14:05 SEO News Overview (Dec 11, 2020) 18:55 Google My Business Allowing Service Businesses to Book Appointments Online 22:22 How to Leverage GMB Site more? 27:20 Google Guaranteed Testing New Badge Design Q&A 43:45 Do you know what the most effective way would be to link to from YouTube to improve Maps Ranking? Don’t Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/

Episode 65 Table Of Contents  – Core Web Vitals & Page Experience FAQs – Google Discover Ads Has A New Format Option – New Google Release: Large site owner’s guide to managing your crawl budget – Google Core Algo Update And so much more! 0:55 Weekly Update (Dec 4, 2020) SEO Mad Scientist Update: How Google looks at and filters Exact Match Brands GMB Masterclass Coming Up on Dec 15 (People who qualified on Black Friday Sale) Agency Client Getting Call on Jan 5th 22:20 SEO News Overview (Dec 4, 2020) Q&A 32:15 Ranking Organically but Does not Rank at all in the Local Pack? 35:35 Saw a 24hrs. drop after posting GMB posts. Do you know more about that? 48:00 GMB Site – Is Google My Business Website Worth It? Don’t Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/

Episode 64 Table of Contents  - Copying Your Content Wouldn't Result In Your Pages Rank Lower - Years in Business Spotted on GMB Listings - Google Local Adds Messaging Button To Google Posts - Possible Google Update. GMB Suspensions Possible on the Rise And so much more! 2:25 Weekly Update (Nov 27, 2020) • Special weekend Sales is Going On... • SEO Mad Scientist Update: Using the Keyword and City in GMB Title • 10% of All Sales Donated to St Judes Children's Hospital (Still 8 Hours to go to be part of this Great Cause) • Tons of Content is lined Up once Black Friday Sale Ends. 14:45 SEO News Overview (Nov 27, 2020) 23:40 Large Spike in Google My Business Suspensions. Is It True? If Yes, Why It's happening?   Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/

Episode 63 Table of Contents  - Custom signals added to DFY SEO, Traffic Link & Link Booster Monthly Campaigns - Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update November 17th & 18th? - Google Local Q&A Limited To 440 Characters From 1,000? - Google Launches Small Business Advisors - GMB Metrics Update: Your insights are moving And so much more! 2:45 Weekly Update (Nov 20, 2020) • SEO Mad Scientist Update: Using the GMB App to “Safely” make Edits & Local Organic Tests • Special weekend cashback deals this month (with prizes) • Custom signals added to DFY SEO, Traffic Link & Link Booster Monthly Campaigns • SEO Campaign Coordinator option for agency partners, 10+ monthly clients https://web20ranker.com/product/seo-campaign-coordinator-agency-partners-only/ • New Blog Post is Up: Dominating the SERPS with Guest Posting - The Definitive Guide 26:15 SEO News Overview (Nov 20, 2020) Q&A 41:10 Got a fence contractor with offices (and GMB listings) currently in Lakeville, MN, and Hartford, WI. In addition to contracting, he also wants to sell fence supplies for DIYers and other contractors and essentially wants to rank for this service in all the cities and towns between Minneapolis and Milwaukee. Is it good to get a separate website and fake GMB for that new location? 57:35 Next year, Google may be "moving" away from backlink driven authority and focusing MORE on traffic driven authority. I'm sure this is a natural evolution, but what do you think the future of SEO looks like? Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/

Episode 62 Table of Contents  - SEO pricing tool live - Google Page Experience Update To Launch May 2021 With New Snippet Labels - Google My Business Reviews Publishing Delayed - XML Sitemap is a minimal baseline for any serious website And So Much More! 1:25 Weekly Update (Nov 13, 2020) • TONs of giveaways coming for the holidays + special weekend cashback promotions. So stay tuned! • SEO Mad Scientist Update: Does the service area allow you to show in different Local SERPs? • SEO pricing tool live • Special weekend cashback deals this month (with prizes) 8:25 SEO News Overview (Nov 13, 2020) Q&A 21:45 How do you get outreach done? 24:15 Bing Webmaster Tools is super helpful 25:45 Do you think with the CLS they are more so trying to see how well users can reach the info they need without having to mess with the UI? 29:15 How much are you paying for Content? Are there any platforms you use specifically to hire SEO writers? Don't Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/

Episode 61Table Of Contents  – Google Short Videos Carousel In Search Results – On October 28, 2020, Google misclassified some Google Discover data as video in the Performance report – John Mueller: Google Cache Link Not Dependent On-Site Traffic – Danny Sullivan: Why Rankings Go Up But Traffic & Clicks Down And so much more! 0:48 Weekly Update (Nov 6, 2020) • No Giveaway this month. TONs of Giveaways coming for the Holidays. • SEO Mad Scientist Update: More SAB Findings. Does the Service Area allow you to show in different Local SERPs? • SEO Pricing Calculator almost ready to Launch 12:00 SEO News Overview (Nov 6, 2020) 24:05 Gary Illyes talks about how Google handles Duplicate Content Detection and then the Canonicalization – Each Page is given a Check and if two Pages match it is dupped. 29:52 Why Rankings Go Up But Traffic & Clicks Down Q&A 35:15 Posts on GMBs don’t really matter, but recently I’m hearing more and more they do. What do you think is the best way to continue to increase geographic ranking with a GMB? 51:50 I shouldn’t Inject Geo LAT LONG all over the Suburbs if I’m located Centrally?   Don’t Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/

Episode 60 Table Of Contents  – Google: E-Commerce Sites Should Use Unavailable Request Indexing Tool Prior To Black Friday – Google My Business Progress Status Of Reinstatement Request – Apple moving to take on Google Search – How search has changed to control the Internet And so much more! 4:15 Weekly Update (Oct 30, 2020) • Giveaway Item: Inbound Sales Automation (Share Live FB Vault with #TrickOrTreat) • SEO Mad Scientist Update: Back to our SAB GMB Tests • Weekend Store Credit Cashback Deals in The Weekend Update 22:10 SEO News Overview (Oct 30, 2020) 28:10 Google hit by landmark competition lawsuit in the US over Search 33:05 Google My Business Progress Status of Reinstatement Request 34:50 Google: Suspension of Request Indexing Unrelated to Indexing Bugs Q&A 44:40 Indexing looks slow across citations, profiles, and new domains   Don’t Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/

Episode 59 Table Of Contents  – How AI is powering Google – Google showing ads in maps predictive test – Google Passage Rankings posted about on Twitter – Slow pages on your website “could” impact rankings but Google And so much more! 1:50 Weekly Update (Oct 23, 2020) • Vault Giveaway: Inbound Sales Automation • SEO Mad Scientist Update: Duplicate Content Tests, Canonical Tests, and much more… • Watch for Weekend Store Credit Cashback Deals in The Weekend Update • John Pim from SerpShip Joining Web 20 to head the Link Building Division • Press Releases Getting Better 10:55 SEO News Overview (Oct 23, 2020) 15:22 Justice Department sues Google, alleging multiple violations of federal antitrust law 19:50 How AI is powering a more helpful Google Q&A 27:48 Has anyone ever had a listing that was verified (by postcard) for several months just go un-verified? 33:00 Anyone else seeing issues with Google this past week? A lot of Keyword fluctuation is going on   Don’t Miss it Live every Thursday at 4 pm EST on the Web 20 Ranker Facebook https://www.facebook.com/web20ranker/