In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook joined by Sophie Brannon from Absolute Digital Media to discuss content mapping, including: - What is content mapping and why is it important? - What are the common mistakes made with content mapping and keyword research? - What tools are agencies using for keyword research and content mapping? - Has AI changed and will it change these processes? You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk 

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Episode 105: Keyword mapping with Sophie Brannon

That's a wrap for season one! Thank you to all of the guests that have appears on season one of Search with Candour: Will Critchlow, Nathan Lomax, Emily Brady, Alex Holiman, Gianna Brachetti-Truskawa, Sophie Brannon, Bille Geena, Joe Lenton, Daniel Foley Carter, Dixon Jones, Dom Hodgeson, Jason Barnard, Judith Lewis, Chris Green, Simo Ahava, Krista Seiden, Mordy Oberstein, Roman Sadowski, Lily Ray, Areej AbuAli, Patrick Hathaway, Dawn Anderson, Andrew Optimsey, James Brockbank, Dan Taylor, Kristina Azarenko, Luke Carthy, Kevin Indig, Natalie Mott, Seb Atkinson, Aleyda Solis, Steven van Vessum, Sean Clark, Michael Curtis, Lexi Mills, Andrew Smith, Tom Haczewski. We'll join you for season 2 in early 2022, where Mark Williams-Cook will be joined by co-host Jack Chambers.

Episode 131: The end of season 1!

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Title updates: Google has made some amends to title element generation in SERPs as well as details on specific use-cases. Cloudflare signed exchanges: Cloudflare has launched one-click SXG allowing webmasters to improve performance. Google Ads updates: New advertiser pages and attractions ads for ticket sellers. You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 130: Title updates, Cloudflare signed exchanges and new Google Ads transparency and ad types

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking to Will Critchlow about: SEO A/B testing: How A/B testing can work for big websites Google's algorithm shift: Is a more machine-led approach making SEO harder and testing more important than ever? Enterprise vs SMEs: Can SMEs actually do A/B testing and is it worth it? Are we actually bad at SEO?: Why do so many experienced SEOs disagree on fundamentals You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 129: SEO A/B testing and how companies should think about SEO investments with Will Critchlow

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: AI content that ranks: Thoughts on a new breed of sites that are churning out AI generated pages taht rank Title woes: E-commerce sites that are tanking due to the Google title update SEO Q&A: Listener SEO Q&A You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 128: AI content that ranks, title woes and your SEO Q&A

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: SEO resources, tools, guides: Some useful tools and guides to help you with Google's title rewrites, javascript indexing and local SEO. Duplicate links: Majestic is upping its game by introducing new duplicate link analysis. You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 127: SEO resources, tools, guides and a dive into duplicate links

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook SEO with Nathan Lomax from Quickfire Digital, an e-commerce specialist build agency about SEO for e-commerce brands talking about page speed and performance They will cover: - How much of a ranking factor is page speed? - What is the difference between performance and speed? - Why are Core Web Vitals special? - How do you go about improving performance? - and much more! You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk 

Episode 126: E-commerce SEO: page speed and performance with Nathan Lomax

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Google mass title rewrites: Google has been changing the titles shown for lots of websites - how are they doing this and why do some of the results look so bad? Passage indexing: Search tweak or breakthrough that will change how we do SEO?  You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk 

Episode 125: Mass Google title rewrites and passage indexing deep-dive

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Schema tools: Google pushing for Rich Result Tool usage despite saying it uses "non-supported" schema Author.url: Google has a new recommended property to identify authors Core Web Vitals tech report: A quantitative look at how tech stacks are performing with Core Web Vitals You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 124: Schema tools, author.url and Core Web Vitals tech report

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Safe Search Page Experience: How much does Google's removal of Search Search from the Page Experience Signals mean? Tie-breaking: Are Core Web Vitals an important ranking factor, a tie-breaker, or... Does it depend? Canonical images: Do you get any SEO benefits from other sites uploading images you created? Rendering and SEO tips: An admission on JS rendering and unsolicited SEO tips. You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 123: Safe browsing, page experience, tie-breakers and canonical images

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook SEO with Nathan Lomax from Quickfire Digital, an e-commerce specialist build agency about SEO for e-commerce brands talking about internal linking. They will cover: - Why is internal linking important? - Can you over-optimise internal links? - Is it possible to have too many links on a page? - Should you link to products from your homepage? - Can you use nofollow tags internally? - and much more! You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 122: E-commerce SEO: internal linking with Nathan Lomax

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: 301 redirects: How specific advice from Google can help you optimise site redirect speed Site operators: More documentation from Google highlighting the limitations of site operators CTR tests: SearchPilot shows how logical changes sometimes result in negative results Smart Bidding updates: Google Ads Smart Bidding rolls out changes to bid strategies. You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 121: 301s, site operators, CTR tests and Smart Bidding updates

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: DirectApply schema: The new attribute for JobPosting schema and new editorial guidleines from Google. Facebook tracking: How iOS14 tracking preventing is affecting advertisers in the real world. GoDaddy listings: Google teams up with GoDaddy to enhance e-commerce inventory Googling fresh queries: A look at how Google is responding to and ranking changes in news and demand. You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk 

Episode 120: DirectApply schema, Facebook tracking, GoDaddy listings and Google responding to fresh queries

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook talking about: Google Knowledge Graph authors: How Google is taking further steps in combining author and article data within its Knowledge Graph and showing rich results. New link reclamation tactics: Good this bold new tactic work for you? How GSC reports impressions: Interesting tests showing how you don't need your site to appear in the search results to get impressions. You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 119: Knowledge Graph and authors, new link reclamation tactics and how GSC reports impressions

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook answering live e-commerce SEO Q&A with Nathan Lomax from Quickfire Digital, an e-commerce specialist build agency about SEO for e-commerce brands. They will cover: - How content can drive your e-commerce SEO - Common mistakes with blogging for e-commerce - Tools and data sources you can use - Subdomains vs sub-folders - Tagging and categories - And loads more! You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk 

Episode 118: E-commerce SEO live Q&A part 3: content, with Nathan Lomax

In this episode, you will hear Mark Williams-Cook answering live e-commerce SEO Q&A with Nathan Lomax from Quickfire Digital, an e-commerce specialist build agency about SEO for e-commerce brands. They will cover: - Best practices for products in multiple categories - How to handle out of stock items - Are there optimal lengths for descriptions of products - How should you use variants of keywords - Is it okay to hide product details behind tabs? - How do you handle discontinued products? - And loads more! You can get the full transcription and links to resources at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Episode 117: E-commerce SEO live Q&A part 2 with Nathan Lomax

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