Latest News on the December Core Algo Update, Authoritative Links and Rankings + SEO Q&A - Ep. 163

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

The latest on the December core update
A message from Sitebulb
Google speaks out on the future of the Structured Data Testing Tool
Early issues with the WordPress 5.6 release
Using Ahrefs keyword rankings tool
Interesting study that shows correlation between authoritative links and ranking
Come work with us!
Q&A: Can you use schema for a contributing expert who is quoted in an article?
Also in NL:
GSC API changes
How to conduct and prioritize actions for a speed and Core Web vital analysis
John Mueller clarifies how Google measures Core Web Vitals
Google looks at all indexed pages on your site when assessing quality
The best way to exclude parameters from crawling
Does Discovered, currently not indexed speak more about technical or quality issues?
Is it normal for Google to indicate that they can fetch some sitemaps but not others when you’ve reduced the number of URLs per sitemap?
400 unsolicited SEO tips
What you missed from the Chrome Dev Summit
Great story for freelancers to read
Local SEO: Using Google Trends to write for local audiences
Local SEO: How to tackle SEO for businesses without a physical address
Tools: Great Chrome extension for the most important SEO data
Tools: Useful tool that changes query based on slash directives

This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 163:

https://www.mariehaynes.com/newsletter/episode-163-light-version/

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