IMG Weekly Chat Digest #40.
Here are a few highlights:
- Mention and About Schema
- Latest Algo changes
- Backlinks disappearing in GSC
- Getting a Knowledge Panel
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1. Mention and About Schema? Worth?
Members: Justin Mosebach, Lauren Proctor and Carolyn Holzman
Topic – General SEO
Summary : Are “mentions” and “about” actually worth using for WebPage Schema in most cases or is it only beneficial in very competitive SERPs?…
Carolyn : For me, anytime I can legitimately add in related words, entities and LSI, i’m gonna take it….
2. Massive ALGO changes in my SERPS
Members: Alex Guemez, Kyle Roof, Brennen Bliss, Suzy B, Chris Labbate, Beata Szoke, Simon London, Ryan Levander and Paul Matthews
Topic: General SEO
Summary: MASSIVE CHANGES in the Algo in MX SERPS! Anyone experienced this? …
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Kyle: Refactoring. Hold tight…
3. Some of my good backlinks disappeared from GSC.
Topics: General SEO
Summary: Did some link building on some decent sites. Suddenly fair few of them have disappeared. But the spammy ones are still showing up……
Alex: There are backlinks that don’t index but shows on GSC. There are backlinks that index but don’t show on GSC. I don’t have info regard your question, but, keep building links…
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4.Getting a Knowledge Panel
Members: James H, Lee Witcher, Conor Duggan and Kim Fredtoft
Topic: General SEO
Summary: Working with someone who wants a knowledge panel for their business. Possible? …
Lee: Get a GMB.…
5. Staging site indexed even though it had noindex meta tags. How to rectify?. …
Members: Lauren Proctor, Clint Butler and Chris Koszo
Tags: General SEO
Summary: Client with a staging site that was indexed even though it had noindex meta tags. How would you go about getting those out of the index quickly?…
Clint: Add search console to the staging site and use the temporary remove from index tool is one option. The other is to make sure that noindex is applied to each page and run all the URLs through an indexing tool to get them recrawled”…
6. Accurate Keyword Search Volume Data
Members: Lauren Proctor and Kyle Roof
Tutorial: How to get Accurate Keyword Search Volume Data..
That’s it for now. Hope you enjoyed the read. See you in the community over the weekend!
