Search News You Can Use Podcast: Search Engine Optimization | Search Engine Marketing | Link Building

In this episode: Feb 27 - March 1 2019 algorithm updates New wording for structured data manual actions Google banning political advertising in Canada Changes to People Also Ask Icons and Top Stories Changes to SERPS for natural supplements Swipe to next for images What happens when you point unnatural links at a site and then redirect that site Is it ok to require a link? Best practices for images hosted on a CDN Does it make sense to use keywords to identify classes, ID’s etc. in CSS? Tips from Google on handling paginated content New series by Martin Splitt from Google on JavaScript SEO Could Angular JS cause Google to not respect a canonical? New way to report GMB spam Update to GMB guidelines

In this episode Marie covers: Feb 23-24 algorithm update MHC now taking on clients for link audits Domain-wide data in Google Search Console New Test My Site tool by Google Google Discover performance report? Chrome Scroll to Text Unlinked featured snippets Fig captions Can hidden content for the visually impaired impact rankings? Does Google adjust its algorithms for specific industries? Is it ok to use UTM tracking parameters on internal links? Search console performance drop reports Save a URL in the Wayback Machine forever Google Posts appearing in other places Google is re-opting in local businesses who opted out of Google Assistant calls GMB messaging issues

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: ---- Algo updates - Feb 16, 2019 Interesting recovery story Bing algo update E-A-T confirmed by Google to be important! Google+ notifications Google Docs API Mobile app properties no longer supported in GSC New featured snippets in Google News? Troubleshoot on mobile Does hreflang give you a ranking benefit How does Google use unlinked mentions? Is E-A-T connected to links? Does a site with a manual action carry a stigma? Majestic backlink filtering Local SEO: Direct review reply live in maps Local SEO: What to do when a location is closing Local SEO: Changes for Service Area Businesses ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: ---- Algorithm updates - February 4th-7th, 2019 Large sites seeing big traffic drops New guidelines for Q&A pages Is Google killing off the url? Google’s new guide to rendering GSC consolidating search metrics to canonical URL Youtube making changes to recommended video More medical featured snippets on desktop Did AMP pages go away for a while? Double featured snippet example What happened to this site owner when they selectively chose which scripts to run? Can you add a development site to GSC Using Google sheets to translate things Schema for remote jobs Is CTR a ranking factor? Google help hangout tips Live indexing for Bing and Google Clarification from Google on the use of virtual offices Is GMB messaging broken? Is Google Assistant enabled by default in GMB? ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your websi

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: ---- No algorithm updates Security tab in GSC New Search Advocate GSC is not going away Google+ gone as of April 2 PageSpeed tool was broken Rank well by tweeting Does SSL improve rankings? Not using Gutenberg? Remove this CSS Harmful content warning for uncommon downloads Does Google pass value through links which require human interaction to be visible? You can now submit up to 10K urls to Bing Personalized message from John Mueller in a manual action What is Googlebot Speakr in GA? More related searches in image search Hashtags in Google Maps Social media icons in Knowledge Panels How to get Sold here on your GMB listingariehaynes.com/newsletter ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates - More on the January 9 update Widespread AMP errors Google’s focus on the new Search Console More on mobile first indexing Featured snippets in related searches Why is Google showing empty results in searches in the EU? Structured data tool showing more warnings Do you need to disavow “cruft” spammy links? Reminder to use Q&A markup Great tip for ranking for a popular search term Excellent tip for Google Lens Seeing a drop in impressions in GSC for local sites? You are not alone. Google can tell when a domain changes ownership A thought experiment in quantifying author expertise Seeing a drop in impressions in GSC for local sites? Here is why! Google discontinuing SMS for GMB? ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: No obvious algorithm updates Unnatural links can hurt a site algorithmically Coding error causes Google to ignore noindex directive How to succeed in Google news How to inspect a url in GSC for a site you don’t own How long should you keep 301 redirects in place? Tips on understanding pagination Should you disavow links from a domain with an expired security certificate? Featured snippets from PDF content Google hit with GDPR fine Site: shows redirected pages What does it mean if your knowledge panel is wrong? GMB opening date negative SEO hack fixed ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Jan 7-9 Google Update New features in Search Console MFI notifications sent in batches Google removing comments from their blog posts Google teaming up with Automatic and WordPress Want a Google Analytics Demo account? New featured snippet appearance Chrome’s ad blocker live July 9 What is going on in the addiction SERPS? Tip about geolocation redirects Changes in date formatting in Google Analytics Trick to manipulate SERPS Godaddy issues Are tracking numbers okay for GMB? ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your website.

In this episode: New feature for rich results Urls are here to stay Google acquires Superpod and we think that’s scary! Is it ok to use a lot of keyword anchored internal links? John Mueller’s advice on handling AMP only sites Hard advice surrounding a low quality site What does Google think when you redirect all 404’s to the homepage? Comments on featured snippets Changes to lyrics in the SERPS Is CTR a ranking factor? Ahrefs has internal link data now Small business community shutting down Your match test by Google No more unicode in local panel

In this episode: No algorithm updates Requiring a link is against Google’s TOS Best skills for a technical SEO to have Should you disavow odd foreign spam links? Sets in GSC Google creating a new social network? “How to” Schema being used for Slack Does Google use mentions? How many people work on search at Google?

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Dec 17 algorithm update Medic recovery case study John Mueller’s comments on Medic Mobile first indexing turns two You may have moved to mobile first indexing Supports for old GSC reports is now gone Chrome 72 Image thumbnails in related searches Google stories Discussion on toxic links E-A-T Webinar Part 1 Does negative SEO link spam work? What if you have both a no-index and index on the same page Is Shopify good for SEO? Which links should be no-followed? Businesses seeing less traffic from Google Posts ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Dec 4-6 algorithm update Chrome 71 and ads API for livestreams Changes to AMP errors Google shutting down some old search console reports What SEL learned from being de-indexed More on WordPress 5.0 Google patent talks about authorship? Google Analytics bug Google Plus shutting down earlier than expected Sundar Pichai explaining how search works in front of Congress Interview with John Mueller What is a good bounce rate? Google help hangout tips Irrelevant event spam Great use of Google Posts ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Nov 30, 2018 update? Rich results for Q&A pages Google images bug How does Google use personalization? Search Engine Land de-indexed? Are you ready for Php 5.6 and WordPress 5.0? Medic recovery by removing auto translated content? Easy way to see all of your keyword rankings New way to report spammers in GMB “Sold here” feature ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful advice, tips and challenges to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: November 23-36 updates Are the latest algorithm updates connected to link quality? Zero search results for some queries Featured snippet carousels Fewer images and video carousels in the SERPS More on the Google news indexing bug Pipes or dashes in titles? Social engineering content detected Local Search Ranking Factors survey New signup process for SAB in GMB Can you put third party reviews on your site? Blacksmiths have disappeared from Scotland GMB insights - extra info is delayed ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates - November 16 User comments in the Google search results? Are Google’s featured snippets ethical? Filter event listings in GSC Interesting content creation tool Healthline.com sees big drops Will Google index urls that redirect? Google help hangout tips -what does discovered, not indexed mean? -What does temporarily unreachable in fetch and render mean? More up to date data in GMB insights Get a quote button in Google Local Service Ads Does getting more citations impact ranking? Big discussion on whether E-A-T is a ranking factor ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Algorithm updates - Nov 10-12, 2018 and probably November 16 Have quality updates improved the search results? Fantastic audit information right in Chrome Does Google use info from the BBB as a ranking factor? Increase in PAA boxes More on the Google News Indexing issues Be careful with rel=“preload” Should your logo be wrapped in an H1 tag? Tip for resizing images Interesting disavow information WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg Increases after making changes to product pages Can you ask Google to not index just part of a page? New GMB app Will GMB give us a longer time for insights? GMB listing hijacked ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Oct 31 and Nov 5 Algorithm Update Quality hit recovery story New features on Bing Chrome 71 changes Can removing spammy UGC cause improvements in rankings? Difference between People also ask and People also search Is domain age a ranking factor? Comments are a ranking factor GSC ranking stats in the SERPS Google asking for permission for Google Assistant bookings Big changes for Service Area Businesses Tips for getting more voice searches ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: Oct 21-24 algorithm update - related to links? Interesting connection between Penguin and Medic Double featured snippets Having trouble being seen in Google news? Lost your rich snippets? Search Console notifying users of slow pages Does the location of content on a page matter? Two ways to see historical robots.txt files Google caches Javascript and CSS for a long time Google news is eating up data New info on meta descriptions PWAs in Chrome 70 Inurl searches on Ahrefs Should you put hreflang in your sitemap? Does having a physical address speak to your E-A-T? SEMRush is looking for writers What does “submitted url has a crawl issue” mean? Good info for people who run affiliate sites Great tip from John Mueller on author E-A-T Ratings without reviews being removed? Best size of image for Google posts. Could beacons trigger more users to leave a review? ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: October 15, 2018 algorithm update Is any site that sells products YMYL? Adding content to local pages can help improve rankings Mobile First Indexing cache bug is fixed Tips from Aleyda Solis on internationalization in SEO Chrome 70 has some interesting changes How many htaccess redirects are too many? Tips from Jennifer Slegg and Paul Macnamara on the Quality Raters’ Guidelines Local pack now showing booking and reservation buttons People also search…in the local results Slideshow images in local pack Great tip for using Q&A in the SERPS ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ ---- Search News You Can Use is Marie Haynes' Weekly Podcast where she provides useful news, advice and tips to help you improve your website.

In this episode, Marie discusses all the latest changes and updates in the world of search, including: -Confirmed core quality update - likely all about trust. https://www.mariehaynes.com/the-september-27-early-october-algorithm-update-was-likely-about-googles-ability-to-assess-trust/ -Are these updates related to mobile first indexing? -Google Plus shutting down -More PAA boxes in search results -Monetization options for Google Assistant -Work-around to see the cache of a page moved to MFI -How to tell if you’re getting traffic from the new Google discover feed -Bing submit url still borked -How to do a quick E-A-T check -Increased crawl activity may mean a move to MFI is coming -Are .edu links more valuable? -What happens if Google sees conflict meta robots tags on a page? -Moz has acquired Stat -GMB bug for manually reviewing locations -Google Posts increased to 1500 characters -Family led attribute no longer available -Trending this week in GMB? ---- Mariehaynes.com/newsletter Mariehaynes.com/algo-chan