Search with Candour

Alan Presch, who helped a voice assistant understand accents more accurately, discusses the challenges of different accents, the work of transcription professionals, and trust issues with voice assistants and over-reliance on technology.

Alizée Baudez makes her return to the podcast to discuss working as a freelance international SEO consultant. Jack & ⁠Alizée discuss: Is it more difficult to work as an international freelancer rather than a local freelancer? How multi-lingual do you need to be to work with clients from around the world? Does cultural awareness ever get in the way of developing your client base? Is it best to specialise or be a generalist to develop an international client base? For the full show notes and transcript, please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Jo O'Reilly, freelance digital PR specialist, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss the state of digital PR and link-building in 2023. Why does everyone think link-building is hard? Is link building harder in 2023? How has digital PR changed in the last few years? What are the essential skills to have to do digital PR professionally? And much more. Sponsor: SISTRIX - UK Supermarket visibility Full show notes and transcripts are available search.withcandour.co.uk.

Mark Williams-Cook & Jack Chambers-Ward reunite to discuss: INP replacing FID in CWV Programmatic SEO - Just spam or a worthwhile tactic? The latest TrendWatch from SISTRIX ⁠Watch this episode on YouTube⁠ All the show links and transcript can be found at search.withcandour.co.uk

This week, Katie McDonald, SEO Specialist at Kaweb, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to rant about SEO things that are annoying them in 2023. Choosing keywords over search intent Old-school SEO reporting vs storytelling Asking the wrong questions to a new client Keeping old, low quality pages “Technical SEO has to be 100% perfect" For the full show notes and transcript, go to ⁠search.withcandour.co.uk.⁠

Live podcast in Brighton - 13th September 2023 Austine Esezobor, host of Democratising SEO, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss Google's SGE and the future of SERPs. Are we heading to a new era of “zero click” SERPs? How different is SGE to when Featured Snippets were introduced almost 10 years ago? What is the long term plan for the Search Generative Experience? Will it replace the traditional SERP entirely? For the full show notes and transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Get your free tickets on Eventbrite Search With Candour is once again joining forces with The SEO Mindset to bring to you a LIVE podcast titled 'How to manage your energy levels' sponsored by SISTRIX. Jack Chambers-Ward will be joined by Sarah McDowell and Tazmin Suleman, hosts of The SEO Mindset, to give you actionable tips and advice on how to manage your energy levels at a conference like BrightonSEO. When? Wednesday 13th September 202319:00 - 21:30 Where? Projects The Lanes, Nile House, Nile St, Brighton, England, BN1 1HW This podcast will be in front of a live audience meaning that our community will be able to gain a snapshot into the production of both the SEO Mindset and Search With Candour podcasts there will also be a live Q&A to really help you be part of the process! Get your free tickets on Eventbrite now!

Ryan Jones, Marketing Manager at SEO Testing, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss all things SEO testing. What is A/B testing? Should you test every change to your site? How do you know if testing is right for you? How to track results when testing For the full show notes and transcript, please visit search.withcandour.co.uk.

This week, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Garrett Sussman, Demand Generation Manager at iPullRank and host of Rankable and The SEO Weekly. Garrett joins Jack to discuss his first-hand experience, thoughts and predictions for Google Perspectives. This is part two of this conversation with part one, all about biases in search, over on the Rankable podcast. Intro: 00:00:15 SISTRIX - SectorWatch: 00:01:09 Google Perspectives with Garrett Sussman: 00:04:57 Outro: 00:46:59

This episode was live streamed on SISTRIX's YouTube channel. Jack Chambers-Ward and Mark Williams-Cook reunite to summarise the latest SEO news and answer questions including: Google Perspectives Google's new spam report form SISTRIX's SectorWatch What are the possible causes for a drop in CTR where there's a huge spike in impressions and clicks? For the transcript, show notes and links, please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.