Search with Candour - SEO podcast

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: December Broad Core Update: This week Google announced a broad core update for December 2020 Crawl stats and budgets: Google give Search Console a new crawl stats report and more advice on managing crawl budget has been published Web Core Vital FAQs: Google has offered more specifics on how Web Core Vitals will work in context to ranking You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking to Simo Ahava and Krista Seiden about GA4 and answering community questions, including: - What are the best new features in GA4? - How does GA4 handle cookieless users? - How is GA4 using AI to help marketers? - What are some alternatives to GA4? - Why is GA4 more "user-centric"? - How is the new event model different? - Will we still be able to get the same segmentation insight? - Will users be forced onto GA4 eventually? You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about the Wix platform with SEO community liaison Mordy Oberstein - Why does Wix have a bad reputation within the SEO community? - What problems has Wix have and does it have with SEO? - What kind of priority is SEO for Wix? - Is it possible for a generic platform to compete, performance-wise? You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: GMB review bugs: A bug affecting the display of Google My Business reviews May 2021 page experience: Google gives dates and more information on their page experience as a ranking factor Black Friday optimisation: Sharing Luke Carthy's tips for optimising your e-commerce site for Black Friday You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking to e-commerce SEO expert Roman Sadowski about what it takes to rank in 2020. - What should your day-to-day look like running the SEO for a large e-commerce site? - What are the important e-commerce ranking factors in 2020? - How important are Google's coming e-commerce SERP changes? - How can in-house SEO teams be the most effective? - What is the advice for people new SEOs joining e-commerce brands? You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking to SEO expert Lily Ray about Google EAT, patents, and specifics such as: Does Google recognise individual authors and how important is this? What is Google doing with speech recognition? Is it possible to complete in YMYL niches with a new company? Are links a big part of EAT? And much more! You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Mobile-only indexing: The difference between mobile-first and mobile-only indexing with Google's new deadline announced Google Discover tips: Some new advice on ranking in Google Discover AI for alt tags: Microsoft's new AI available to developers to automatically describe images QRG updates: Google has updated their Quality Rater Guidelines in October You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: New Google features: Discussion of the new features coming to Google as announced in SearchOn, including passage indexing, improved misspelling recognition, and improvements to visual search Ads in Suggest: New ads appearing in Suggest results for Google Maps Indexing issues: More workarounds to Google's current indexing issues You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: StreamEA: A new way to do on-page entity optimisation GPT-3: Bots in the wild on Reddit and ranking spun content Indexing bug: Affecting billions of pages Search Terms report: A temporary Google Analytics workaround You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Indexing issues: Google still having problems with two concurrent indexing issues. Merchant Centre metrics: New performance metrics coming for November Google News Showcase: Google launches a completely new product for news You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk