In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: The latest on the January 2020 core update January Featured Snippet changes Reconsideration requests are taking a long time URL removals are back in GSC Favicon changes in the SERPS Can a missing favicon be a sign of a core update hit? Google maps slows down page speed Can you use Javascript 301’s? Do links in PDFs pass PageRank? Potential dangers for people playing around with favicons Was Forbes penalized by Google? Do links in profiles help with ranking? Q&A: Should a blog be on a subdomain or a folder? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-116/ The latest on the January 13, 2020 Core update Many affiliate sites were hit by the January Core update Was spam deindexed with the January Core update? Important info for recipe sites Legacy mobile app properties for GA shutting down Changes to online shopping Changes to cookies Is structured data necessary in order to rank for recipe sites? A common reason for a disavow file to not upload - and how to fix it Discussion on whether widget links are unnatural Should you noindex tag pages? Is Google My Business insights data reliable? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: January 13, 2020 Core Algorithm update Chrome will still block push notifications Improvements to the rich results tester New features for Google Travel Is Google handing out more manual actions lately? Desktop results are going to look different soon What your headlines say about your content Interesting Disavow case study Link building inspired by Gwenyth Paltrow Will noindexing tag and search pages affect your rankings? What happens when you exploit a link building tactic Should you disavow links from sites that send no traffic? Pinterest Trends Google maps now showing “in between” businesses Google showing sentiment info in GMB reviews It can take several days for Bing local listings to update Q&A: I have old reciprocal links from mommy bloggers. Should I disavow? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: December 26, 2019 - possible minor algorithm update? Conclusion of the Wix SEO competition MHC now has a company Twitter handle Issues with the url parameter tool in GSC New Data Studio released Why do we sometimes see >2 results for one company on Page 1 now that we are supposed to have diversity? Reconsideration requests are taking longer than usual lately Linking in the Google Discover feed Users now commenting about live TV in the Google SERPS You always need text on a page You can mute individual GSC messages Is E-A-T important for eCommerce sites? Google Posts are glitched One reason why businesses cannot get verified on GMB New info from Google on using virtual offices Question about reciprocal linking and November 8 drop Info on how we are working on improving MHC as a company and growing Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: No obvious algorithm updates Interesting thoughts on changes to the Knowledge graph What’s happening in our Wix SEO competition BERT affects 10% of queries world wide How Google uses machine learning in search Google is using machine learning in Google News Site: not working in Google news Doorway page info Quotes from Aleyda Solis’ interview with the webmaster trends analysts Interesting reason for GMB reviews to disappear Win a free paid newsletter subscription! https://www.wixseolovers.com/post/wix-seo-contest-wrap-up Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algorithm updates - nothing obvious this week Quality updates can affect different subdomains More on the Nov 8 update and outbound links BERT live in many more languages now BERT is used by Google to analyze page content Robots.txt experiment - can a page be indexed if blocked in robots.txt? Updated Quality Raters’ Guidelines - here is what changed Disavow case study Why would Google crawl with Gbot for desktop when a site has been moved to mobile first indexing? Update to Google assistant based on your diet Update on our Wix competition entry - https:www.wixseolovers.com Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Was there a Google update this week? More info from Google on the November Local Search Update (Bedlam) The latest on our Wix SEO competition - https://www.wixseolovers.com Sundar Pichai now CEO of both Alphabet and Google New message interface in GSC Google often ignores links from spammy sites When Google picks the wrong canonical Can BERT cause pages to drop out of the index? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter 
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: November algorithm turbulence The November 8 update: Should you disavow? New GSC reporting for product pages Recipe sites suffering due to new rich results previews Can you remove a link by blocking the target page in robots.txt? More on “indexed, though blocked in robots.txt” If you have an AMP and non-AMP version which is used when Google determines page speed? Should you use internal links for references, or a list at the end of your article? Why do links removed with the URL removal tool sometimes come back? Recipe sites. This bug may cause pages to be deindexed. Q&A: Are links from copied content containing a fragment unnatural? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter 
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: More on the November 8, 2019 Google algorithm update Possible update on November 11, 2019 The latest on the Bedlam update (local update November 5) Google may remove your organic listing if you have a featured snippet Rendering counts against your crawl budget Tip re structured data use What to do with mixed content Does Google penalize for duplicate content? Marie’s thoughts on the Wall Street Journal article damning Google You can now report spammy GMB users Q&A: Should authors have multiple pages to extol their different areas of author E-A-T? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter 
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: November 8, 2019 algorithm update - quite possibly a link quality update November 4-5 local update Recipe sites still having issues getting images indexed We’re hiring! More from Google on Page Speed Google adding locations in title tags How to know when to use the disavow file Does Geo-targeting in GSC mean you won’t rank outside of our targeted areas? Project Nightingale - big news in the health industry GMB limits how many service areas a business can have GMB discontinuing toll free numbers Q&A: Should you have multiple about us pages? Q&A: Should you no index author archive pages? Q&A: Should a medical small business be deindexing their content that could be seen as contradicting scientific consensus. Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter 
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