Search With Candour

The Master of Markup, Dave Ojeda joins Jack Chambers-Ward on this week's episode to discuss all things schema, structured data and markup. Topics include: Is schema more or less important in 2023? The importance of schema outside of rich results What are the best tools for creating and implementing schema? For full show notes and links, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Adam Gent from The SEO Sprint joins Jack Chambers-Ward this week to discuss how to think like an SEO product manager. What is an SEO PM? What can other SEOs learn from PMs? What skills are essential for being an SEO PM? For full show notes, please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

The duo of Jack Chambers-Ward & Mark Williams-Cook reunite once again to bring you the latest SEO news, updates and hot takes including: September 2023 helpful content update SISTRIX's analysis of the HCU fallout "Links are no longer a top 3 ranking factor" - Gary Illyes from Google For full show notes please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Sarah and Tazmin from The SEO Mindset podcast join Jack to recap their live podcast from BrightonSEO. The trio gives some tips and advice about managing your energy levels at conferences and life in general. Sign up for updates from Search With Candour and The SEO Mindset here. For the full show notes and transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

It's that time of year when Jack runs around the world's biggest SEO conference and asks questions to some of the industry's best and brightest. This time, guests include: Matt Kohli Gemma Houghton - International Search Summit Alizée Baudez Kyle Rushton McGregor Sarah McDowell Check out the Neurodivergents in SEO community here. For the full show notes and transcript, check search.withcandour.co.uk.

On this weeks episode,Jess Joyce joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss coding and CMSes. Do you need a CMS to build a website? Which CMS gives you the most flexibility when it comes to coding? What CMSes should you avoid? And much more! For full show notes & transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Ebere Jonathan joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss how to identify and analyse causes of traffic drops. This includes what data to look for, what tools to use and a lot of practical information for this common issue with many sites. Get your tickets for the live podcast on 13th September in Brighton. Full show notes & transcript available at search.withcandour.co.uk.

Watch this episode on Youtube Jack and Mark reunite to recap the month's SEO news including: Google introduces 'learn as you search' to SGE Is Google removing links from SGE? SISTRIX's new SERP update feature You can now add social media links to Google Business Profile The dynamic duo also answered questions from LinkedIn! For full show notes & transcripts, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Alan Presch joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss a project where Alan helped a voice assistant understand accents more accurately. Alan & Jack discuss everything from different Irish accents, the hard work of professionals transcribers and even their record collections. For full show notes & transcripts, go to search.withcandour.co.uk

Alizée Baudez makes her return to the podcast to discuss working as a freelance international SEO consultant. Jack & ⁠Alizée discuss: Is it more difficult to work as an international freelancer rather than a local freelancer? How multi-lingual do you need to be to work with clients from around the world? Does cultural awareness ever get in the way of developing your client base? Is it best to specialise or be a generalist to develop an international client base? For the full show notes and transcript, please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Jo O'Reilly, freelance digital PR specialist, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss the state of digital PR and link-building in 2023. Why does everyone think link-building is hard? Is link building harder in 2023? How has digital PR changed in the last few years? What are the essential skills to have to do digital PR professionally? And much more. Sponsor: SISTRIX - UK Supermarket visibility Full show notes and transcripts are available search.withcandour.co.uk.

Mark Williams-Cook & Jack Chambers-Ward reunite to discuss: INP replacing FID in CWV Programmatic SEO - Just spam or a worthwhile tactic? The latest TrendWatch from SISTRIX ⁠Watch this episode on YouTube⁠ All the show links and transcript can be found at search.withcandour.co.uk

This week, Katie McDonald, SEO Specialist at Kaweb, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to rant about SEO things that are annoying them in 2023. Choosing keywords over search intent Old-school SEO reporting vs storytelling Asking the wrong questions to a new client Keeping old, low quality pages “Technical SEO has to be 100% perfect" For the full show notes and transcript, go to ⁠search.withcandour.co.uk.⁠

Live podcast in Brighton - 13th September 2023 Austine Esezobor, host of Democratising SEO, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss Google's SGE and the future of SERPs. Are we heading to a new era of “zero click” SERPs? How different is SGE to when Featured Snippets were introduced almost 10 years ago? What is the long term plan for the Search Generative Experience? Will it replace the traditional SERP entirely? For the full show notes and transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Get your free tickets on Eventbrite Search With Candour is once again joining forces with The SEO Mindset to bring to you a LIVE podcast titled 'How to manage your energy levels' sponsored by SISTRIX. Jack Chambers-Ward will be joined by Sarah McDowell and Tazmin Suleman, hosts of The SEO Mindset, to give you actionable tips and advice on how to manage your energy levels at a conference like BrightonSEO. When? Wednesday 13th September 202319:00 - 21:30 Where? Projects The Lanes, Nile House, Nile St, Brighton, England, BN1 1HW This podcast will be in front of a live audience meaning that our community will be able to gain a snapshot into the production of both the SEO Mindset and Search With Candour podcasts there will also be a live Q&A to really help you be part of the process! Get your free tickets on Eventbrite now!

Ryan Jones, Marketing Manager at SEO Testing, joins Jack Chambers-Ward to discuss all things SEO testing. What is A/B testing? Should you test every change to your site? How do you know if testing is right for you? How to track results when testing For the full show notes and transcript, please visit search.withcandour.co.uk.

This week, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Garrett Sussman, Demand Generation Manager at iPullRank and host of Rankable and The SEO Weekly. Garrett joins Jack to discuss his first-hand experience, thoughts and predictions for Google Perspectives. This is part two of this conversation with part one, all about biases in search, over on the Rankable podcast. Intro: 00:00:15 SISTRIX - SectorWatch: 00:01:09 Google Perspectives with Garrett Sussman: 00:04:57 Outro: 00:46:59

This episode was live streamed on SISTRIX's YouTube channel. Jack Chambers-Ward and Mark Williams-Cook reunite to summarise the latest SEO news and answer questions including: Google Perspectives Google's new spam report form SISTRIX's SectorWatch What are the possible causes for a drop in CTR where there's a huge spike in impressions and clicks? For the transcript, show notes and links, please go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Jen Penaluna, SEO Manager at The Lowdown, to discuss how to move from an agency to an in-house role. Jack & Jen talk about: The biggest surprises Common misconceptions about working in-house The benefits The things you'll miss from agency life And more! Time stamps: 00:00:37 - Intro 00:01:25 - SISTRIX TrendWatch 00:05:54 - Interview with Jen Penaluna 00:50:06 - Outro Sponsor: Search with Candour is sponsored by SISTRIX, the SEO's toolbox. Go to sistrix.com/trends and sign up for the TrendWatch newsletter today! Full show notes and transcript available at search.withcandour.co.uk.

On this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward runs down his top 10 SEO podcasts that he thinks you should be listening to in 2023. Yes, Jack is a podcast listener as well as a creator. Sponsor: SISTRIX - TrendWatch Jack's top 10 digital marketing podcasts: Search Off the Record SERPs Up Edge of the Web Radio SEO Mindset Azeem Digital Asks Marketing O'Clock Rankable Recipe for SEO Success WTSPodcast The Measure Pod Full show notes and transcript available at search.withcandour.co.uk.