Early Thoughts on the May Core Update and Much More SEO News

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: MHC’s early analysis of the May 2020 Core update New - Rising Retail Categories by Google Google is displaying date and creator of Youtube videos rather than the article itself Robots.txt is always obeyed by Google Updating your title tag to the current year is not enough Geotargeting does not restrict a site to only be shown in that region Being on the first page is a sign you’re doing things well Slow declines over time may mean that your website is becoming less relevant Negative SEO is not the reason Google created the disavow tool Google almost never indexes all content There is no special tool or technique that will alert Google of your canonical changes Hyphens vs underscores in urls: a test GSC lags are not related to core updates What likely happened with LinkedIn dropping out of the index Local SEO: Possible update Local SEO: What you should know about Covid-19 Google posts Local SEO: Reviews are coming back Local SEO: Be careful before marking your business as closed This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 132: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-132/ Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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