Three Things in Search (an SEO podcast): Recent Episodes

Pedro Dias

Three Things in Search is a weekly-ish SEO podcast by Pedro Dias. It's information overload out there. If you often ask yourself what are the main 3 things that happened in search this week and you should care about, this is likely the podcast you're looking for.

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  1. Mobile-First indexing move will resume soon -- We are entering April, and with it, the last push towards MFI [link]
  2. Re-blocking Pages After You Allowed To Crawl -- Misconceptions about crawl and indexing systems. [link]
  3. Zero Clicks Search Results -- Last week was a lot of activity around a study that claimed 65% of searches stay in Google, and do not end up on a website. [link]

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For this episode I'm gonna touch on:

  1. Google News Full Coverage in search -- Google is bringing the Full Coverage feature from Google News to the mix of its universal search results. [link]
  2. Google free Hotel listings -- Google is opening yet another vertical listing specifically for Hotels. [link]
  3. Technically Indexed vs Practically Indexed -- Crawling and indexing is that those are 2 separate processes, and you can only block one of them. [link]

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For this episode I'm gonna touch on:

  1. Google and Pagination -- Pagination is more simple and less of a problem than many SEOs make of it [link]
  2. Pyramid Navigation Structure -- Or the URL Structure for SEO and Usability [link]
  3. Rich Results and Quality -- Technical correctness and quality issues [link]

Context of my article on URL Structure for SEO and Usability.

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For this episode I'm gonna touch on:

  1. Category Listings VS Individual Pages -- How category listings are more valuable than individual pages in some websites [link]
  2. Mobile-First Indexing Deadline -- The final deadline is coming. Is your website ready? [link]
  3. Benefits of longer Title Tags -- Why you should ignore the hard limits when composing titles and descriptions. [link]

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For this episode I'm gonna touch on:

  1. Google Can Process JavaScript Redirects [link]
  2. Google Core Web Vitals metrics -- where I'll rant a bit around the ranking factors misconceptions
  3. Google Search Central Live Conference [link]

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For this episode I've picked the following topics:

  1. Google News & Discover Manual Actions In Search Console [link]
  2. Google Image Search update reduces duplicate image results [link] - Video SEO for Google Images [link]
  3. Google passage ranking now live in US English search results [link]

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For this episode I've picked 1 discussion topic and 2 articles:

  1. [DT] All Core Web Vitals Must Be Met For Ranking Boost [link]
  2. A quick way to learn more about your search results [link]
  3. Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data [link]

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This week I've picked 2 articles, and a topic I want to give my thoughts on:

  1. Possible Issues With Google Search Console Canonicals & AMP Reporting - Reported at: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-issues-canonicals-amp-reporting-30819.html
  2. Google may not display Web Stories that are teasers - Reported at: https://searchengineland.com/google-may-not-display-web-stories-that-are-teasers-345666
  3. Talk about Web Stories - More about Web Stories https://stories.google/

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Three Things in Search from last week:

  • Google and News Publishers in France
  • Google Threatens to Withdraw from Australia
  • New Google 3rd party cookie alternative