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Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: January 13, 2020 Core Algorithm update Chrome will still block push notifications Improvements to the rich results tester New features for Google Travel Is Google handing out more manual actions lately? Desktop results are going to look different soon What your headlines say about your content Interesting Disavow case study Link building inspired by Gwenyth Paltrow Will noindexing tag and search pages affect your rankings? What happens when you exploit a link building tactic Should you disavow links from sites that send no traffic? Pinterest Trends Google maps now showing “in between” businesses Google showing sentiment info in GMB reviews It can take several days for Bing local listings to update Q&A: I have old reciprocal links from mommy bloggers. Should I disavow? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: December 26, 2019 - possible minor algorithm update? Conclusion of the Wix SEO competition MHC now has a company Twitter handle Issues with the url parameter tool in GSC New Data Studio released Why do we sometimes see >2 results for one company on Page 1 now that we are supposed to have diversity? Reconsideration requests are taking longer than usual lately Linking in the Google Discover feed Users now commenting about live TV in the Google SERPS You always need text on a page You can mute individual GSC messages Is E-A-T important for eCommerce sites? Google Posts are glitched One reason why businesses cannot get verified on GMB New info from Google on using virtual offices Question about reciprocal linking and November 8 drop Info on how we are working on improving MHC as a company and growing Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: No obvious algorithm updates Interesting thoughts on changes to the Knowledge graph What’s happening in our Wix SEO competition BERT affects 10% of queries world wide How Google uses machine learning in search Google is using machine learning in Google News Site: not working in Google news Doorway page info Quotes from Aleyda Solis’ interview with the webmaster trends analysts Interesting reason for GMB reviews to disappear Win a free paid newsletter subscription! https://www.wixseolovers.com/post/wix-seo-contest-wrap-up Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algorithm updates - nothing obvious this week Quality updates can affect different subdomains More on the Nov 8 update and outbound links BERT live in many more languages now BERT is used by Google to analyze page content Robots.txt experiment - can a page be indexed if blocked in robots.txt? Updated Quality Raters’ Guidelines - here is what changed Disavow case study Why would Google crawl with Gbot for desktop when a site has been moved to mobile first indexing? Update to Google assistant based on your diet Update on our Wix competition entry - https:www.wixseolovers.com Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Was there a Google update this week? More info from Google on the November Local Search Update (Bedlam) The latest on our Wix SEO competition - https://www.wixseolovers.com Sundar Pichai now CEO of both Alphabet and Google New message interface in GSC Google often ignores links from spammy sites When Google picks the wrong canonical Can BERT cause pages to drop out of the index? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter 
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: November algorithm turbulence The November 8 update: Should you disavow? New GSC reporting for product pages Recipe sites suffering due to new rich results previews Can you remove a link by blocking the target page in robots.txt? More on “indexed, though blocked in robots.txt” If you have an AMP and non-AMP version which is used when Google determines page speed? Should you use internal links for references, or a list at the end of your article? Why do links removed with the URL removal tool sometimes come back? Recipe sites. This bug may cause pages to be deindexed. Q&A: Are links from copied content containing a fragment unnatural? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter 
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: More on the November 8, 2019 Google algorithm update Possible update on November 11, 2019 The latest on the Bedlam update (local update November 5) Google may remove your organic listing if you have a featured snippet Rendering counts against your crawl budget Tip re structured data use What to do with mixed content Does Google penalize for duplicate content? Marie’s thoughts on the Wall Street Journal article damning Google You can now report spammy GMB users Q&A: Should authors have multiple pages to extol their different areas of author E-A-T? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter 
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: November 8, 2019 algorithm update - quite possibly a link quality update November 4-5 local update Recipe sites still having issues getting images indexed We’re hiring! More from Google on Page Speed Google adding locations in title tags How to know when to use the disavow file Does Geo-targeting in GSC mean you won’t rank outside of our targeted areas? Project Nightingale - big news in the health industry GMB limits how many service areas a business can have GMB discontinuing toll free numbers Q&A: Should you have multiple about us pages? Q&A: Should you no index author archive pages? Q&A: Should a medical small business be deindexing their content that could be seen as contradicting scientific consensus. Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter 
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In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: November 3, 2019 - possible quality tweak The most recent BERT info that is important to SEOs Summary of Dawn Anderson’s post on BERT - What SEOs need to know https://searchengineland.com/a-deep-dive-into-bert-how-bert-launched-a-rocket-into-natural-language-understanding-324522 Does Google have a BERT score? Does Google use Bert to understand pages? Site Kit by Google available for all WordPress users The new speed report in GSC - is it accurate? What Fitbit being acquired by Google could mean for SEO Highlights from the Google Webmaster Conference Controversy over how Google parses robots.txt Rich snippets bug affecting recipe sites You need to be https to appear for voice searches Can Google overwrite your phone number? CPU consumption of JavaScript can affect indexing Bing is going to hand out more penalties Should rankings change after you are moved to mobile first indexing? Can getting too many links too fast hurt? Can s

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: October 21, 2019 update - is it connected to BERT? Examine’s partial recovery What you need to know on BERT What are the effects of losing rich result enhanced searches? Is Google still pushing more image thumbnails on desktop? Youtube’s “in this video” timestamps are appearing now Google chooses the timestamps for your pages New FTC ruling: selling followers/likes is now illegal How many SEOs have purchased links in the last 5 years? Microsoft no longer supporting flash Google maps bug can affect sites using tracking parameters Q&A: how to identify what content is thin? Q&A: how impactful is url structure on rankings? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

It's been 2 weeks since the last podcast, so there is lots to discuss in the episode. This week Marie covers: -Many tips Marie learned at Pubcon Vegas and SearchLove Boston -New user strings used by Googlebot -New change of address tool in GSC -Poss small Google update October 14-19, 2019 -Indexing issues October 16, 2019 -Structured data for Google Assistant -Tips for winning featured snippets -Is content behind tabs still being devalued? -How to tell if your Google Analytics data is being sampled -How valuable is your About page content? -How to find competitors’ GMB categories -Tip for ranking better on Apple maps -Complete overview of Gary Illyes’ Pubcon Q&A along with Marie’s thoughts, including a lot about E-A-T, the QRG, content accuracy, medical consensus and more. Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: September 24-30 (approx) core quality update Was there a local component to the core quality update? Did the Daily Mail recover from their June 3 hit? Google fixed an error causing people to get breadcrumb validation problems Can Google read text in images? Does your agency publish its address? More snippet control for webmasters Are we seeing a reduction in review stars since the rich snippet update? Changes to Yoast for snippet control Boris Johnson’s smart SEO moves You can now remove the “order online” button for restaurants in the knowledge panel SEO Q&A: Why are sites with unnatural links outranking me? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algorithm updates - September 24-27, 2019 (approx) core update announced September 17, 2019 - Probably a quality tweak Aug 22-29, and September 13 - probable link related update The latest on Starmageddon Fresher data in GSC New snippets to use New info in GSC on breadcrumbs Changes for European press publications Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Possible quality updates September 9 and September 13, 2019 The leased Subdomain update is likely live Changes to review star schema to prevent “self serving” reviews being marked up Bing’s stance on rel=sponsored and rel=ugc Changes to page title length? Should you now be nofollowing disavowed links? Great disavow case study Should you disavow spammy image stealing sites? New lazy loading WP plugin Tip for ranking well in a nearby city (well, sort of) Submit a question for the next Q&A: https://Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

In this episode Marie hosted a live version of the Podcast for our 100th episode: Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXna5NGvwuM

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Aug 22-29 - possibly a big link related update 100th episode is coming soon - free paid version for everyone, contest and live podcast next week Auto DNS verification with Google Reminder - no index no longer supported in robots.txt Analytics for AMP stories How to check GSC to see if you have been moved to Mobile First Indexing Google can still crawl with Googlebot for Desktop after being moved to MFI When will the robots.txt tools be available in new GSC? Update on Dejan SEO manual action GSC not consolidating m. Data properly GMB removing distance based service areas Google displaying competitor ads on local business profiles Import GMB listing directly into Bing Places Url inspection bookmarklet Marie's Interview with Barry Schwartz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRHfAsLTxD4 Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Algo update: Aug 19-21 - small tweak Algo update affecting coupon sites Can you remove a manual action by disavowing alone? More from https://WixSEOLovers.com Changes to GSC API Test of Featured Snippet Anchors Difference between Mobile First Indexing and Mobile Friendliness Do affiliate links need to be nofollowed? Can structured data manual actions be caused by invalid markup? The Dejan SEO unnatural link penalty It’s now easier to reply to reviews on GMB Google Screened vs. Google Guaranteed Submit a question for the next Q&A: https://Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

In this episode, Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: Aug 12 and 18 algo tweaks Leaked documents from Google give us some info on what’s going on with core updates More on scientific consensus in search What we’re doing to win the Wix SEO Competition (https://wixseolovers.com) Changes to AMP share buttons More indexing issues Googlebot has caught up to Chrome 76 College information appearing in the SERPS Detailed advice on when to nofollow a link Do rankings go up when you win FAQ snippets? New from Google: warning about ranking via subdomains Should you be concerned about foreign language links pointing to your site? More from Google on displaying author info on your site Do pages marked in GSC as discovered not indexed hurt crawl budget? Google Go is live Tips for improving your about page Q&A: How to display scientific references Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: MHC Contest announcement - win a free newsletter subscription Why the Google de-indexing bug happened Google News Indexing issues resolved Google showing less porn Infinite scroll on desktop? Aleyda Solis AMA Lazy Loading on Chrome 76 More from Google on E-A-T for medical sites GSC monthly performance report Google can add offline info to the knowledge graph Q&A: Why does our url keep disappearing 24h after submitting to Google? Q&A: Can you un-disavow a link? Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes

Marie discusses the latest news in the world of SEO, including: More on the June/July algorithm turbulence https://Mariehaynes.com/algo How could Google measure scientific consensus? Info from Google on Core Updates Marie’s take on the SEO Twitter drama that followed after Google linked to several SEO’s (including us!) Evergreen rendering in Googlebot Fresh Featured Snippets Disavow case study Q&A: How often should you file a disavow? Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Twitter: @Marie_Haynes - Twitter.com/Marie_Haynes