Search with Candour - SEO podcast

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook and Rob Lewis will be talking about: Googlebot user-agent change: Exploring how an update to Google's user-agent string might cause websites some issues. Internal nofollow links: Clarifying best practise on crawl management with internal nofollow links. Q&A: We're answering your questions about PPC for franchises and on-page HTML sitemaps. 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 talking about: September Core Update: Looking at the first ranking change data that is coming in and discussing what you can do about core updates. Rich snippet controls: Google's new tags that allow you to control how your rich snippet results appear for text, images and video. GSC data: Google Search Console improving data refresh times. 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 about: Google review rich results: Google's algorithm update is preventing 'self-serving' review stars from showing in SERPs GSC Breadcrumbs: A new addition to Google Search Console Microsoft Audiences: Microsoft trying to tempt publishers with new audience targeting options in open beta. 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 about: Google Quality Rater Guidelines: Small changes in these guidelines show a shift to Google looking to perform better at perceptual tasks. ECPC changes: Google Ads brings maximise conversion value to manual bidding Nofollow: A discussion on the interesting side effects of the recent introduction of rel=ugc and rel=sponsored tags 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 & Tom Haczewski will be talking about the role of User Experience (UX) in SEO. Google has been slowing moving forward with integrating UX signals into their algorithm looking at things like site speed, mobile friendliness and pop ups. Tom & Mark discuss how SEOs can do a better job by approaching UX from the ground up, rather than trying to fix specific bits downstream. You'll hear Tom's expert opinion on UX projects he's worked on, where SMEs should start with UX and even his opinion on cookie pop-ups. 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 & Rob Lewis will be talking about: GMB ads: Google is now showing competitor ads within organisation's own information boxes. Average position sunsetting: Google is removing the 'average position' metric. Rob and Mark discuss the pros and cons and impact it will have on campaigns. Maximise conversion value: Google's newest automated bidding strategy. Can we sack the PPC managers yet? You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

In this episode, you'll hear a SearchNorwich recording of Daniel Brooks giving his talk "Keyword Research: Tips & tactics that generate clicks & impressions to implement tomorrow!". Daniel goes over the importance of keyword research and provides some really effective strategies to carry it out using various tools and what metrics you should be considering. You can watch the full video of Daniel's talk and see her slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at https://searchnorwich.org

In this episode, you'll hear a SearchNorwich recording of Eva Wilkes giving her talk "Awesome Audiences". Eva gives a great overview of audiences you can use on the Google Display Network, and then goes over strategies on how to build custom affinity audiences to give you the most control. You can watch the full video of Eva's talk and see her slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at https://searchnorwich.org

In this episode, you'll hear a SearchNorwich recording of Stacey MacNaught giving her talk "Honey, I shrunk the content marketing budget!". Stacey gives some great examples about producing low-risk content on a budget but can still drive links and interest. You can watch the full video of Stacey's talk and see her slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at https://searchnorwich.org

In this episode you will hear a SearchNorwich recording of Lukasz Zelezny giving his talk "SEO tactics to implement tonight". Lukasz gives a detailed and insightful overview of a few his tactics to help improve organic rankings, citing his own method of keyword research, GAP analysis, WordPress plugins and more.  You can watch the full video of Lukasz's talk and see his slides at https://search.withcandour.co.uk and learn more about SearchNorwich at https://searchnorwich.org