Search with Candour

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 

What's in this episode? Mark Williams-Cook gives some brief news on the Google Maverick algorithm update, Google's new #AskGoogleWembmaster shorts and Google's confirmation that there has been a technical problem with Google My Business shortnames. You'll then here from Sean Clark from Clark St. James, deliver his SearchNorwich talk on why so many companies struggle to realise a return on investment with their Google Ads campaigns. Sean will go over tips, tools and techniques to help you see past just keywords, bids and ad copy onto what is really important. You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes athttps://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 19: Google Shopping support and automated bidding algorithm changes What's in this episode?    Mark Williams-Cook & Rob Lewis will be talking about: Google suspending Shopping support: After a European Commission ruling, Google will no longer be offering technical or strategic help with Google Shopping campaigns. Automated bidding changes: Google has made signficant changes to their automated bidding algorithm that could make it easier for new businesses to enter the PPC market. 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: Local SEO & Google My Business bugs: Some great tips for UK businesses to get ahead in map results and the Google My Business bug that has been making businesses profiles get suspended. Schema abuse: A quick look at sites that are abusing schema to force rich results in the SERPs Google SERP experiments: A new "people also views" SERP experiment - plus how to share Google experiments you're seeing. 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: Robots.txt changes: How Google are dropping support for undocumented features of robots.txt parsing in September and what effect this may have. Diversity update: New analysis by SearchMetrics on how the Google diversity update is impacting sites Keyword research with Python: A look at a free, new keyword research tool built in Python. You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk