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.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: -Algorithm updates - Sep 8-11 - Possible update -GSC error reporting is wrong -Manual actions can expire -Chrome 69 is live - and SEOs don’t like it! -Is it ok to scrape Google? -Example of a big site improperly using a canonical -Can whitespace cause page layout demotions? -New type of manual action -Update on my site that saw a traffic drop with mobile first indexing -More on Author E-A-T -Some reviews are worth more than others. -You can’t ask for Yelp reviews, but you can do this...! ---- 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 - more info on the impact of the July 31 local update Manual actions viewer is now in beta GSC Is author E-A-T really that important? Is it ok to get a followed link by sponsoring a local team? Should you be using schema to add dates to your articles? An example of a really good review site Google ignores most .edu links What does it mean if there is no cached page for your site? Disavowing for negative SEO? How to change info in your knowledge panel Interesting Pure Spam penalty example ---- 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: -Latest on the August 1 update -Possible August 22 and August 27 small update? -Changes to how GSC reports data -More changes in video carousels -100,000 links coming to you soon in GSC -Is it ok to redirect a lot of urls to your home page? -When Google comments on your PBN strategy -Can low quality forum content hurt your site? -Did acquiring the Point Blank SEO blog help Backlinko’s rankings? -Plus Codes in GMB -Veteran Led business attribute 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: The latest on the August 1 "Medic" Update Possible algorithm update August 17/18 Links report now available in Google Search Console Beta New expanded featured snippets Another tip for finding content on your site that Google considers lower quality Does it matter where your content is positioned on a page? Are you making this mistake that could hurt you in mobile first indexing? Is Google handing out more manual actions? Interesting Google Posts examples ---- 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: The latest on the August 1 (Medic) update Possible update August 13, 2018 23 Questions for Panda hit sites GSC additions Related searches now in image search Changes for Q&A sites in SERPS Disavowing entire TLDs? Local SEO: View previous posts in Knowledge Graph Local SEO: Door Dash ads now in Canada Local SEO: Your past visits ---- 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.