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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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Mark Williams-Cook and Jack Chambers-Ward are reunited in the Candour studio to discuss:

• The European Commission'...

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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 techni...

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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 h...

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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...

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?

Time stamps:

• 00:00:05 - Intro
• 00:00:52 - Sponso...

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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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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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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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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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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Chris Spann (Technical SEO Lead at Lumar) joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss how SEO and security can and, more importantly, should work together. Subscribe for new episodes every Monday morning! #seo #seopodcast #podcast Sponsors: AlsoAsked - https://alsoasked.com/ Core Updates - https://coreupdates.com/ Follow Chris: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisspann/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/503blazeit Follow Jack: L...

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 e...

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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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 t...