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Dana DiTomaso joins Search With Candour to discuss:
What are Key Events?
So, what are Conversions in GA4 then?
Why did Google make this change?
How can one Key Event be attributed in three different ways?
User Acquisition vs Traffic Acquisition
What’s the difference between them?
Is there a best way for SEOs to get an accurate picture of organic traffic in GA4?
What...
Published 05/06/24
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Jack and Mark reunite in the Candour studio to discuss the important search marketing news from April 2024.
Everything from Microsoft's answer to Google Discover, Brave Search's new AI-powered search experience and Google's answer to the recent site...
Published 04/29/24
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Andy Frobisher joins Jack on the podcast this week to discuss website migrations for ecommerce businesses. Andy & Jack answer questions including:
Why do businesses migrate?
What types of site migrations are there?
When’s the best time to...
Published 04/22/24
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Adam Di Frisco joins Jack Chambers-Ward on this week's podcast to discuss Baidu and how Google is becoming more like Baidu. Topics covered include:
Common misconceptions about Baidu
Baidu ranking factors (study by...
Published 04/15/24
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Matt Tutt joins Search With Candour this week to discuss how to make the web more sustainable:
The resources required for data centres
How easy it is to use green web hosting
Reducing image sizes
Reducing crawl budgets
...
Published 04/08/24
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Mark Williams-Cook and Jack Chambers-Ward are reunited in the Candour studio to discuss:
The European Commission's AI Act
Ethan Lazuk's breakdown of the Google anti-trust...
Published 04/01/24
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Beth Woodcock joins the podcast this week to discuss how to get into technical SEO if you don't have a technical background.
Where should someone start with technical SEO?
Are there particular tools that are essential to...
Published 03/25/24
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Amy Doherty joins Search With Candour this week to discuss the power of storytelling in marketing.
How to add emotion to your marketing and advertising
How storytelling helps you relate to your audience
How to use both analytical...
Published 03/18/24
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Gus Pelogia, SEO Product Manager at Indeed, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and what effect it will have on Google SERPs
What is the Digital Markets Act?
What is a gatekeeper in the Digital Markets...
Published 03/11/24
Jack Chambers-Ward and Mark Williams-Cook reunite to recap all the important SEO news from February 2024.
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Jack & Mark discuss:
The new Google & Reddit agreement
Google paying publishers to test new AI tools
Helpful Content fallout and recoveries
What is information gain?
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Published 03/04/24
Hannah Butcher joins the podcast this week to discuss squiggly SEO career paths.
Why are unusual career paths common in the SEO industry?
What are the benefits of this kind of career path?
What are some of the potential drawbacks?
Common causes of job changes
How much can mental health and neurodiversity contribute to your career path?
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Published 02/26/24
Nate Matherson, CEO of Positional and host of the Optimize Podcast, joins Jack to discuss how to make your content helpful in 2024.
Topics discussed include:
How to stand out against AI-generated content
How to find unique data sources
Why you should include quotes from subject experts
How to demonstrate first-hand experience
Bring some personality and tone of voice to your writing
Targeting long-tail keywords
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Published 02/19/24
Alex Harford, Technical SEO consultant, and mentor, joins Jack to discuss some of the basics that we SEOs often either forget or take for granted.
The duo discuss:
URL structure
Page templates
Coding languages
Status codes
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Published 02/12/24
Matt Kohli makes his return to the podcast to discuss his recent move from working in SEO agencies to going freelance.
Topics discussed include:
The decision to go freelance
The early days so far
The importance of all the paperwork and boring bits
The pros & cons of moving from agency to freelance
Planning and road mapping
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Published 02/05/24
Mark Williams-Cook reunites with Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss and recap the most important SEO news from January 2024 including:
Is Google search getting worse?
The impact of SGE on organic results
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Published 01/29/24
Riley Hope joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss SEO reporting, especially focusing on small and medium-sized businesses.
What metrics should we be tracking?
What tools to use for SEO reporting
How to provide feedback to clients
Long term strategy and KPIs
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Published 01/22/24
Chris Spann (Technical SEO Lead at Lumar) joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss how SEO and security can and, more importantly, should work together.
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Published 01/15/24
In this episode, Matt Hepburn joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss enterprise SEO.
What is enterprise SEO?
How is enterprise SEO different?
Are SEOs invited to help brain storm on content topics?
What is content syndication?
How can multiple business lines adversely affect SEO when they are targeting the same topics?
How can enterprise businesses stumble with their implementation
How can organic traffic conversion help enterprise businesses?
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Published 01/08/24
In the final episode of season 2, Jack is joined by Petra Kis-Herczegh to discuss emotional intelligence and how it can help you in your career. Topics include:
What is emotional intelligence?
The types of emotional intelligence
How can emotions hold us back?
What can we do to improve our self reflection?
What are the biggest challenges SEOs face?
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Published 01/01/24
Mark and Jack are back together for the final episode of 2023!
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The dynamic duo discuss:
SISTRIX's major updates and improvements during 2023
How well did their predictions about 2023 go?
How many Google updates were there in 2023?
What do these updates tell us what to expect in 2024?
For more episodes and show notes, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.
Published 12/25/23
It's episode 100 of season so, to celebrate, we've got three amazing guests on this episode!
Crystal Carter, Arnout Hellemans and Bibi The Link Builder join Jack Chambers-Ward to form Team Stroopwafel and discuss the SEO highlights of 2023 and SEO predictions for 2024!
Topics discussed include:
The best uses of ChatGPT and AI
Bing AI
Search Generative Experience
E-E-A-T
Is UGC on SERPs here to stay?
For the full show notes and links from this episode, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.
Published 12/18/23
A mythbusting duo of Jack Chambers-Ward & Morgan Petrov embark on a podcast adventure full of rants and hot takes to bust SEO myths.
These SEO myths include:
Page speed is everything
Disavowing backlinks
Anchor text ratios
Google Sandbox
Bounce rate as a ranking factor
And much more!
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Published 12/11/23
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Mark Williams-Cook & Jack Chambers-Ward reunite once again to discuss the latest SEO news including:
SISTRIX's new newsletter by Jono Alderson
Google's anti-trust trial so far by AJ Kohn
Google tests Notes and Follow features on SERPs (with mixed results)
New discussionforum and profilepage markup
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Published 12/04/23
Seb Atkinson makes his triumphant return to the podcast (originally appearing on Season 1 Episode 51 in March 2020) and joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss Interaction to Next Paint (INP).
What is INP?
How is it different to first input delay?
What's a good INP score?
How do we measure INP?
What factors contribute to INP?
How to get stakeholder buy-in
Google's INP announcement
For full show notes, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.
Published 11/27/23