Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: November 23-36 updates Are the latest algorithm updates connected to link quality? Zero search results for some queries Featured snippet carousels Fewer images and video carousels in the SERPS More on the Google news indexing bug Pipes or dashes in titles? Social engineering content detected Local Search Ranking Factors survey New signup process for SAB in GMB Can you put third party reviews on your site? Blacksmiths have disappeared from Scotland GMB insights - extra info is delayed ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates - November 16 User comments in the Google search results? Are Google’s featured snippets ethical? Filter event listings in GSC Interesting content creation tool Healthline.com sees big drops Will Google index urls that redirect? Google help hangout tips -what does discovered, not indexed mean? -What does temporarily unreachable in fetch and render mean? More up to date data in GMB insights Get a quote button in Google Local Service Ads Does getting more citations impact ranking? Big discussion on whether E-A-T is a ranking factor ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates - Nov 10-12, 2018 and probably November 16 Have quality updates improved the search results? Fantastic audit information right in Chrome Does Google use info from the BBB as a ranking factor? Increase in PAA boxes More on the Google News Indexing issues Be careful with rel=“preload” Should your logo be wrapped in an H1 tag? Tip for resizing images Interesting disavow information WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg Increases after making changes to product pages Can you ask Google to not index just part of a page? New GMB app Will GMB give us a longer time for insights? GMB listing hijacked ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Oct 31 and Nov 5 Algorithm Update Quality hit recovery story New features on Bing Chrome 71 changes Can removing spammy UGC cause improvements in rankings? Difference between People also ask and People also search Is domain age a ranking factor? Comments are a ranking factor GSC ranking stats in the SERPS Google asking for permission for Google Assistant bookings Big changes for Service Area Businesses Tips for getting more voice searches ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Oct 21-24 algorithm update - related to links? Interesting connection between Penguin and Medic Double featured snippets Having trouble being seen in Google news? Lost your rich snippets? Search Console notifying users of slow pages Does the location of content on a page matter? Two ways to see historical robots.txt files Google caches Javascript and CSS for a long time Google news is eating up data New info on meta descriptions PWAs in Chrome 70 Inurl searches on Ahrefs Should you put hreflang in your sitemap? Does having a physical address speak to your E-A-T? SEMRush is looking for writers What does “submitted url has a crawl issue” mean? Good info for people who run affiliate sites Great tip from John Mueller on author E-A-T Ratings without reviews being removed? Best size of image for Google posts. Could beacons trigger more users to leave a review? ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: October 15, 2018 algorithm update Is any site that sells products YMYL? Adding content to local pages can help improve rankings Mobile First Indexing cache bug is fixed Tips from Aleyda Solis on internationalization in SEO Chrome 70 has some interesting changes How many htaccess redirects are too many? Tips from Jennifer Slegg and Paul Macnamara on the Quality Raters’ Guidelines Local pack now showing booking and reservation buttons People also search…in the local results Slideshow images in local pack Great tip for using Q&A in the SERPS ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: -Confirmed core quality update - likely all about trust. https://www.mariehaynes.com/the-september-27-early-october-algorithm-update-was-likely-about-googles-ability-to-assess-trust/ -Are these updates related to mobile first indexing? -Google Plus shutting down -More PAA boxes in search results -Monetization options for Google Assistant -Work-around to see the cache of a page moved to MFI -How to tell if you’re getting traffic from the new Google discover feed -Bing submit url still borked -How to do a quick E-A-T check -Increased crawl activity may mean a move to MFI is coming -Are .edu links more valuable? -What happens if Google sees conflict meta robots tags on a page? -Moz has acquired Stat -GMB bug for manually reviewing locations -Google Posts increased to 1500 characters -Family led attribute no longer available -Trending this week in GMB? ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm Updates - September 27 and October 1 Google bug for urls with a "+" in them Authority is a confirmed ranking factor Can a Panda hit site recover? Does it matter how many noindexed pages you have? How long does it take a page to get reindexed after an accidental robots block? Does Google have specific algorithms for individual industries? Google showing site stats in the SERPS Can bad links hurt your rankings? Wikipedia now pointing broken links at archive.org. How can we take advantage of this? Can poor code hurt your rankings? Did Google really say that all link building is bad? Tool for scraping People Also Asks Google posts no longer at the top of the Knowledge panel ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates Bug in GSC indexing status When you get the MFI email, when did the switch happen? Above the fold - how is it measured with mobile first indexing? Updates to Google search What are those blue checkmarks in the SERPS? How long will it take for all sites to be moved to Mobile first indexing? Page titles in GA How many businesses are using Google posts? Changes to the local search forum Is Yelp going against Google’s TOS? ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

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? ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.