Search with Candour - SEO podcast

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be covering: Google guest post crackdown: Multiple publishers have reported receiving penalties related to guest posts. Fake PPC traffic: A run through how to detect fake PPC traffic and a discussion of Rob's tools he uses to combat these clicks. You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? In this episode, you will hear a SearchNorwich recording from Mark Williams-Cook giving his talk "Won't somebody think of the robots?". Mark shares his experiences of vital SEO tasks that are often missed during web builds, as they don't directly impact the end user.

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be covering: Fashion SERPs: The big shake up in how fashion SERPs are shown in the US and what you need to do Google Partner programme changes: What you need to know about the new requirements to be a Google Partner. You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be covering: Removing content from Google: New tools within Google Search Console to handle content removal. Google Ads delivery: Changes and workarounds for Google's new ad delivery methods ISP data: What is ISP data and why has it been removed from Google Analytics? You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? In this episode, you will hear a SearchNorwich recording of Aleyda Solis giving her talk "How to develop actionable and impactful SEO audits". Aleyda shares her vast experience of developing a process with SEO audits that can achieve real buy-in and deliver business change. You can watch the full video the talk and see his slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at https://searchnorwich.org

Mark Williams-Cook talks about: Google favicons on desktop: How are these favicons impacting users? Mark discusses the studies that have been completed so far. Featured snippet update: What you need to know about Google removing duplicate listings from search results and how you can work with and around it. You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook will be talking to SEO consultant, author and speaker, Aleyda Solis about what it takes to make a truly effective SEO site audit that delivers outcomes instead of reports. We'll dive into the importance of technical, content and links within audits, their context to the business and how to get that all-important client buy-in. You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook talks about: 2019 Sistrix IndexWatch: Who were the SEO winners of 2019? Medium's organic fall: An overview of the investigation into Medium.com's loss of half their traffic. Listener Q&A: Questions on how to help Google trust canonical signals and link building multiple links from a single site. You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

What's in this episode? In this episode you will hear a SearchNorwich recording of Steven van Vessum giving his talk "SEO disasters: the good, the bad and the taboo". Steven explores some real-life SEO disasters and talks about how to put in place processes to both monitor and deal with issues before they become big problems. You can watch the full video the talk and see his slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at https://searchnorwich.org

What's in this episode? In this episode, Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis are joined by PPC expert Sean Clark from Clark St. James and SEO expert Michael Curtis from Further to discuss search predictions for 2020. We'll talk about how trends such as voice search and AI are affecting (or not so much!) the industry and how our job roles may continue to change and evolve. You can watch the full video the talk and see her slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk