August 24th Update, Bing Ranking Factors and SEO Q&A

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses:

Possible update August 24, 2020 - might be related to SERP features
Search Off the Record - info on indexing waves, the sandbox and crawl budget
Google has a new system for reporting bugs
How to see if a page has won or lost SERP features with SEMrush
Moz’s title tag experiments
Google ignores affiliate links

Also in Newsletter:

SEO Mythbusting on site migrations
Interesting info on whether you should change the “last updated date” when making minor changes
WordPress publishing a maintenance release to stop sites from breaking
How algorithms work
A new way to track core web vitals
Changes to scroll to text fragments
Local SEO - GMB attributes such as “women-led” or “black-owned” now appearing on desktop
A schema testing tool that is similar to Google’s
Chrome extension to spy on competitor’s GMB categories

This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 148:

https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-148

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