Episode 101 Table Of Contents
Co-Host: Sophie Allen + Bucky Helms
4:24 Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update
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- New Link Management Dashboard - To Ensure Better Quality Of Bought Links
26:23 SEO News For The Past Week
- Possible Problem With Indexation - Pages Are Dropping In And Out Of The Index - None Persistent Issue, and Google Has Yet To Confirm If It Is An Issue
- Google Sharing Data Handling Details On Search Console Insights Reporting - Published A Blog Post, With New Details On How Data Security Is Tailored To Content Creators And Website Owners
SERP Changes/Tests
- Google New Affordable Picks Carousel Showing In Mobile Search - Google Is Now Showing A New Carousel To “help shoppers find lower-cost, cheaper and more affordable products.”.
- Google To Restrict Ad Targeting On Children - Google Recently Listed Changes It Is Making Around Children And Search - SafeSearch Assistant Will Be Automatically Enabled For Accounts 18 And Under
- Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Algorithm - The SEO Community and Certain Tools Are Seeing Fluctuations - Google Has Yet To Confirm Anything
- Google Enforcing Some Physical Addresses For Some Google My Business Listings - Google Is Now Requiring Some Businesses To Add A Physical Address And Not Be A Service Area Business In Google My Business
Google Says
- Google: Linking To Lesser Websites Doesn't Make Your Site Less Relevant - John Mueller Of Google Stated "Does a link to a “lesser” website makes a result less relevant? Do links on Wikipedia make it less useful? Not at all.”. Now if links are spammy and manipulative then Google won’t trust said links.
- Google Search Console Doesn't Filter Out All Bot Traffic - John Mueller confirmed that the Google Search Console does not filter out all bot traffic.
- Google: Alt Text Is Important For SEO - Google’s Martin Splitt said that “alt text is important for SEO too.”
- Google: Each Core Update Can Affect Search Rankings Differently - John Mueller clarified that when Google pushes out new core updates that each one can impact Google’s core rankings differently. - Each Update Could Impact Your Site Differently, Or It Could Not
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