May 2020 Google Core Algorithm Update and More SEO News

In this episode Marie discusses the latest in SEO news, including: Early thoughts on the May 2020 core update How to stay up to date on algorithm changes How to determine whether your traffic changed due to an update or Coronavirus Web Vitals from Google GSC now supports Special Announcement structured data Gary Illyes on the importance of page speed Does old, out of date content bring down Google’s perception of quality for your site? Don’t resubmit a second reconsideration request if you have one still pending How long does it take for Google to deindex pages if your site goes down? Should you use emojis in your snippets? Interesting info about Google looking at the intent of a query Does the location of a link on the page change its value? Can you get a search box in the SERPS by adding schema? Do non-canonical versions of pages eat up crawl budget? Why your articles may get deindexed Let’s talk about Backlinko’s ranking study Google has slashed its marketing budget AMP stories are now web stories Possible serious issue with Yoast Local SEO: Possible update? Connected to the core update? Local SEO: Form for GMB name spam Local SEO: March reviews are beginning to surface in GMB dashboards Q&A: Should I use expired domains to help rank my website? Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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