Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algorithm updates: May 20-24, 2019 Algorithm updates: May 29, 2019 Author E-A-T Webinar Mobile first indexing news Favicons in SERPS Google news indexing bug is resolved Will the indexing issues cause a loss in data in GSC? News on beta testing Google’s speed report Adsense ads not displaying? New video layout in SERPS Be careful verifying in GSC with domain properties 301 vs 302 redirects Should you create multiple websites? Can featured snippets come from hidden content? Brighton SEO talks available for streaming Amp stories plugin for WordPress LinkedIn hit by previous algorithm update Favicons in the 3 pack People also search for in the maps results Is your GMB logo/cover photo not showing up? GMB review suspension fixed now Subscribe to the newsletter: https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes

Marie discusses the latest SEO news including: May 14, 2019 - possible mild algo update Google News indexing bug (AGAIN) Google’s QRG have updated - Here are Marie’s thoughts Google’s cache is still buggy No more referrals for Google images Can you use howTo schema for recipes? GSC may show 410s as 404s Can an image on a no-indexed page get in the index? New features in Moz Keyword Explorer More on content behind tabs Your ads may be breaking your Google Posts may now be called Updates GMB Insights does not include data from voice search Local SEO guide has been updated Interesting stuff on how Google’s algorithms work Subscribe to the newsletter: https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes

In this latest episode: Possible May 9 algo update Is Google gearing up for an update? New speed report coming Structured data: FAQ and How-to Top Stories news High res image opt in New Googlebot is live Incognito mode in maps Google podcasts Should we rely on URL inspection tool or cached version? Is a paid SSL certificate better? Remove duplicates in Google sheets Mail-chimp offering websites Should you create a service area radius? Top 5 suggestions for optimizing GMB Generate Google ID’s Subscribe to the newsletter: Https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes

In the latest episode of the podcast, Marie discusses: Algo Updates - Apr 27-May 1 Structured Data reports Googlebot using latest version of Chromium Google is going to index podcasts EAT and Google News Quick Lazy Loading Chrome changes for non-secure sites Disappearing manual actions No relevant search results Featured snippets showing more text Are sitemaps important? Manual action showed Reddit links Cool SEO tip from Dan Sure Reputation matters Test re keyword placement in title tags Subdomain quality is important Importance of keywords in url structure Is infinite scroll ok for news sites? How far is Google with mobile first indexing? Moz SEO certificate Wix SEO contest Possible GMB bug Does hiding your address impact GMB rankings? Subscribe to the newsletter: Https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter

In this episode: Possible small quality update Yet another Google indexing bug Did your manual action disappear? Looks like another Google bug GSC reports back on track. Does this mean this April de-indexing bug is fixed? Perhaps not... Google says they have no plans for moving the disavow tool to new GSC. Here are our thoughts! Is Google cracking down on footer links? Eric Schmidt stepping down from Google as CEO Google using Q&A when they think they don’t have the right content in the SERPs Does GSC count the links at the bottom of a result in the SERPs as an impression? Interesting case where traffic and impressions spiked and then dropped again Some guidance on when to use structured data Curious how find out the age of someone’s content? Here’s a neat tip! Annoyed by seeing “Your Site on Google” statistics? You can opt out of featured snippets for a page...FYI, you do lose ALL display snippets when you do this! Easily create PDFs from your Google Docs What does Google think about two sites sharing the same checkout flow & site template? Is Firefox blocking Google Analytics and other trackers? Massive upgrade to Twitter Data Export MozCon 2019 Community Speakers Announced New Local feature: Auto suggested answers as you type in Q&A Is it possible that Google is gearing up to start monetizing GMB? Nearly fixed: GMB suspensions which were causing reviews to vanish For agencies with smaller clients: Here’s a browser extension to opt out of Google Analytics tracking Subscribe to the newsletter: https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter

In this week's episode: Algorithm Updates Google Announcements Official announcement of AMP real URL Google’s Daniel Waisberg talks enriching search results through structured data Google News indexing issues has been resolved AJAX/XHR calls have been added to Google’s list of things which will use up your crawl budget More images appearing in the SERPs Disavow Question: Backlink on Site A redirects to Site B. Which site should you disavow? Why robots.txt noindex is not officially used by Google Marie Kondo your URL parameters Tips from John about how to recover from quality updates Have you rebranded with a new site but you didn’t redirect? John Mueller weighs in Ex-Googler says Google tolerated non-search spam Suggested posts from Google My Business Short business names rolling out on GMB Google My Business suspensions are causing reviews to vanish JSON-LD Schema Generator For SEO Local Sponsorship finding tool Read the full newsletter at: https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter

On the agenda this week: Algo updates: April 2-9, 2019 turbulence More on the GSC de-indexing bug GSC consolidating views Javascript coming to AMP: Amp-script Amp stories - dedicated section in search GSC to include AMP story traffic Ranking at position -1??? Site:query counts Interesting info on Blockquote Is HTML to text ratio important Interesting case: Google can’t render a site’s CSS Should we submit every new page to the index? Tip from Cyrus Shepard on images Vimeo videos now appearing in featured snippets? New algorithm updates are more granular than in the past Test showing Google is not using rel=prev/next Is Google really using Chrome 41 for rendering? New metric for Youtube rankings being tested GMB category bug Mark best answer on GMB

In this podcast episode, Marie covers: No Algorithm Updates Widespread Google deindexing Lazy loading by default in Chrome 75 New data in GSC for Android Apps Changes to AMP Story results Does a 301 redirect count as a backlink? Seeing more DuckDuckGo conversions? Bolded title tags? Schema v3.5 released Product catalogs in GMB How to report a fake, unverified GMB listing FTC fines robocalling companies

In this episode, Marie covers: Algorithm updates Canonical info in GSC More reports dropped from old GSC GMB help community Debugging Chrome for iOS New resource from Google for improving mobile experience Google+ is dead Robots.txt tip Should you delete your old properties in GSC? Folders vs parameters for paginated content If a link is not in GSC is it important? If you have both an m. and responsive version, what does Google prefer? Tip for redirected content How to address thin content A new search engine from Ahrefs? AMP for email Use translate in Google Sheets Local SEO: Where to get GMB help

In this week's episode we discuss: Algo updates - March turbulence Rel=prev/next How neural matching differs from RankBrain Code editing for AMP pages Google on Webspam Google premier partner frauds Expandable featured snippets Fetch as Google going away How to remove a sitemap from GSC Do you need schema for a featured snippet? How does Google treat duplicate content like that of laws and other legal content? How does Google evaluate quality? Mailchimp no longer works with Shopify Algo changes affecting Pinterest