Search with Candour

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: 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: 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: 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

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Shipping schema: New options for e-commerce retailers in search GMB messaging: Google rolls out more in-depth update messaging in GMB Ads affecting SEO: Do ads or the type of ads impact rankings? 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: Googlebot moving to HTTP/2: What does this mean for SEOs and webmasters? Cheap hosting and SEO: A recent study suggests that cheap, shared hosting could be bad for your rankings. ITP in iOS14: The latest headline notes on Intelligent Tracking Prevention and iOS14 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 and Rob Lewis talking about: Shopping ads showing in any country: A Google Shopping update that can show products in any country, depending on language. Update in location reporting: Google removing actual physical location data Search terms report data: Rob's approach to dealing with missing search term data Microsoft Ads updates: The raft of new features coming to Microsoft Advertising 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: Search terms report data slashed: Google has reduced the amount of data that is going to be accessible to Google Ad advertisers. What could this mean for the future? Google Ads price hides: In response to new digital taxes, Google has passed the price increase onto advertisers. Listener Q&A: Your SEO questions, on Javascript, indexing, and internal linking answered! You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk