Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: No significant algorithm updates this week Google discover documentation updated to show that E-A-T is important Google’s latest move to block content that contradicts scientific consensus Mobile first indexing deadline has been moved Site: issues at Google Issues with FAQ markup appearing less frequently Local SEO: Q&A and reviews are reappearing Q&A: We have two product pages ranking, but the wrong one is winning Q&A: What does Google mean when they ask about exaggerating or shocking headlines or page titles? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 142:
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In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Possible small update July 6, 2020 New reference to E-A-T in Google’s documentation on Discover Image search drawing entity info from Knowledge Graph What we learned from Sistrix’s study on CTR Should you disavow links from scraped articles? What if a captcha is slowing your site down? Is one site better than two? Are category pages considered duplicate content? How Google handles singular vs plural words Is valid HTML a ranking factor? What should you do if a site copies your content? More evidence to explain the mysterious “not getting indexed” problem many sites are facing Is there a use for “noindex, follow?” SEMRush no longer accepting guest posts Incredibly important news for WordPress site owners! JQuery could break your site. Local SEO: Does adding services improve rankings in GMB? Local SEO: You can now opt out of food order links in GMB Q&A: If parts of your site are not mobile friendly, will this impact the whole domain? Q&A: Can you use FAQ schema on a services page? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 141:
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In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Detailed discussion on the June 22/23 “government” update The Rich Results tool is replacing the Structured data testing tool (and SEOs are not happy about it) Clarification from Google on what happens when you file a spam report We learned a LOT from Bing’s updated webmaster guidelines Google may be making more changes to affect sites with self serving reviews Gary Illyes robots.txt question. Here is why so many SEOs answered incorrectly Difference between discovered, not indexed and crawled, not indexed John Mueller comments on a site’s link building practices Insight into Google’s algorithms Can Google recognize page types based off of page structure? How does Google use structured data? What does it mean if Discover traffic has stopped? Can Googlebot really add products to shopping carts? (Along with a tinfoil hat theory) Does it matter which inner page your GMB links to? Q&A: Do GMB posts help with EAT? Q&A: Is updating your last updated date without updating the content frowned upon by Google? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 140: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-140 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 of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Possible update June 22/23 promoting authoritative sites? Google updates their How Search Works documentation More on Google’s free product listings How to leverage your competitors’ scroll to text results Can irrelevant links hurt you? Will adding hreflang help you rank better? More on the Disqus comments not being indexed. Why isn’t IBM’s structured data returning review stars? Local SEO: Google sending notices when reviews are removed Local SEO: Business messaging is expanding Tips on improving author E-A-T Q&A: Can a popular posts section help improve internal linking? Q&A: Should you noindex author archives? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 139: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-139 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 of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: Possible Google update June 23? Google glitch with indexing Disqus comments How To Schema producing rich results again Why did this site see no uplift after building 109 links through HARO and other methods? Could Google be selectively choosing which links to pass PageRank through? How to verify if your site has been moved to mobile first indexing What can happen if your site goes unverified in GSC for a while Does the order of urls in your sitemap matter? Tips for optimizing eCommerce category pages You can track Web Core Vitals using Google Tag Manager How to diagnose what is causing Largest Contentful Paint slowness More on discovered - currently not indexed Why would you see a surge in impressions but no change in clicks? Possible reasons why you haven’t been moved to Google’s mobile first index Does Google consider word count a ranking factor? A tip for winning image rankings Google is launching a Pinterest rival Local SEO: New online appointments, care, classes and estimate in GMB Local SEO: What are these square pins on the maps? Q&A: Are dates in urls important? Should I change my urls? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 138: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-138 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 of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: June 7-9 algorithm turbulence Another hint from Google that might explain why you’re struggling to get content indexed More from Google on the nofollow changes Recent manual action removals at MHC How to monitor performance of Recipe Structured Data How-To schema testing appears to be over Can rel=sponsored and rel=ugc be used for ranking purposes? Are all links in guest posts unnatural? Interesting case where two similar sites could not rank at the same time Are old quality issues still seen by Google? Can you still rank some pages of your website while under a manual action? What does, “Indexed though blocked by robots.txt” mean? How much of an impact can recipe structured data have? Does Google use links from Youtube for ranking purposes? SERP volatility for new sites What do you do if suddenly a competitor creates thousands of spammy backlinks pointing to your site? Is there still success in disavowing? Many sites flagged by Google ads also did poorly with recent organic updates Is Etsy giving poor link building advice to merchants? Local SEO: Online appointments as a new attribute Local SEO: Ownership info being pulled from Facebook? Local SEO: How to flag user profiles for abuse This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 137: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-137 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 of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: A Possible algorithm update today? What does it mean now that Prabhacker Raghavan is the new head of search at Google? What we learned from the Google webspam report Bing has a new backlink tool Bing site scan Google is now highlighting text on a page that was in the featured snippet you clicked - you can disable this apparently Are homepages now eligible for rich results? Should we be optimizing for user intent? Is a link still a good link if it points to a 404 page? Discussion on Google crawling RSS feeds A tip for news sites managing the indexability of their content Marie’s thoughts on SEMRush being called out for selling links Google cutting down on Garage Door spam Do keywords in your GMB Q&A impact ranking? Q&A: A foreign site just linked 500 spammy backlinks to my images. Disavow? Q&A: Should I hire a medical writer? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 136: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-136 Submit a question for the next Q&A: https://Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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In this special episode of Search News You Can Use, Marie Interviews Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, John Mueller! Just prior to their conversation, Marie discusses some SEO new including: - Core web vitals announced as a future ranking factor https://www.mariehaynes.com/core-web-vitals/ - Was there a tweak to the Google core update? In the full interview with Google’s John Mueller they dive into topics like link quality, content quality, thin content, manual actions, E-A-T and much more. This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 135: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-135 Submit a question for the next Q&A: https://Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: The latest on the May core update Have search results improved since the May core update? And an interesting theory that could help you rank really well. **John Mueller is our guest next week!** New podcast from Google Webmasters Was there a Google update tool Are robots.txt directives case sensitive? Do unlinked brand citations help? Marie’s thoughts on the SEMRush post on manual actions SERP autocomplete research tip How to remove “uploaded by” attribution in SERPS A possible non-technical reason for pages to drop out of the index Google can usually work around technical errors Does linking to your GMB profile improve rankings? Users can now suggest an edit to mark a business temporarily closed Did your keywords switch to local intent? GMB insights not working since May 18 New Structured Data visualizer tool Q&A: Does the order of H tags matter? Q&A: Are there benefits to getting links to author pages? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 134: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-134 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 of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: The latest on the May 2020 core update Exciting guest joining the MHC podcast soon! Chrome to block resource heady ads Support for Guided Recipes has arrived Pages with minimal text can still rank well Index selection is closely associated with space and content quality Infinite scroll can cause indexing issues Google on user generated content How long does it take for Google to revisit a 410 page? How many url parameters are too many? How does Google handle a site with multiple meta descriptions or title tags? Should you add a forum to your medical site? Does Google use bounce rate to rank websites? GSC performance report data is off from May 12 to 25th Intermittent issues with GSC Local SEO: some ranking fluctuations Local SEO: You may be eligible to add secondary hours to GMB Local SEO: Some reviews are returning to GMB Local SEO: If you lost data in GMB, is that due to the core update? Q&A: Any advice for those who want to start a website as a side project? This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 133: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-133/ Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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