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The Core Updates newsletter is written by Mark Williams-Cook, a veteran SEO who is Digital Marketing Director at Candour, Founder of AlsoAsked and organiser of SearchNorwich. Over 40,000 SEOs follow Mark's 'Unsolicited #SEO tips' on LinkedIn, which has now been wrapped up into the Core Updates newsletter, along with an overview of weekly news and the current episode of the Search with Candour episode, hosted by Jack Chambers-Ward.
SEO tips and updates from Mark Williams-CookSearch with Candour hosted by Jack Chambers-Ward SEO updates you need to know 🗃️ Google Search results now link directly to The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This new relationship between with the non-profit archive site follows up on Google removing cached pages on SERPs earlier this year. 📍 Google will now sanction GBP accounts with fake reviews, with three levels of severity. The potential restrictions include not receiving new reviews,...
SEO tips and updates from Mark Williams-CookSearch with Candour hosted by Jack Chambers-Ward SEO updates you need to know 🔍 Initial reactions to SearchGPT, OpenAI's prototype search engine, have been mixed so far. Users have reported the typical hallucinations and incorrect information but also some better performance for certain types of queries. ⛕ 26% of URLs ranking in SearchGPT don't receive traffic from Google. This could present new visibility opportunities. SearchGPT uses Bing's index...
SEO tips and updates from Mark Williams-CookSearch with Candour hosted by Jack Chambers-Ward SEO updates you need to know ✍️ Google may use the og title as a source for your title on the SERPs. OG data is seen when content is shared on social media. It is customisable on most CMS platforms so may be worth including in your future content audits. 🧑⚖️ Yelp has sued Google regarding their "monopoly of local search". This is another in a long list of lawsuits Google has been hit with regarding...