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Podcasts are the best vehicle to soak up knowledge from the top minds in SEO.

SEOs benefit most from the experiences, insights, and lessons of others.

Here are the 9 most valuable lessons I've learned from my guests on Season 5 of the Rankable Podcast:
Ep. 72 @chimammeje - Topic Clusters

Combining articles vs topic clusters:

β€’ Use KeywordsEverywhere to find related topics and group keywords
β€’ Find what keywords rank on one page
β€’ Build mini topic clusters by using subheads within your topic cluster

@chimammeje Ep. 73 @Suzzicks - Entity-first SEO

Instead of focusing on language for indexing, Google has shifted to a focus on entities.

Using entities allows Google to provide better results regardless of language.

Relationships and concepts transcend words.

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Over the years I've performed over fifty SEO audits for news publishing websites, and these are the most common issues I find (that are worth fixing):

A #NewsSEO thread... (1/11)
NewsArticle structured data is usually implemented the right way.

However, images defined in the SD - both the article featured image and the publisher logo - are often the wrong sizes and aspect ratios.

This can limit visibility, especially in Discover. (2/11)
While most publishers use tags to some degree, their is often little structure or sense to it and left to journo's discretion.

In-article linking to tag pages is often non-existent. This is a lost opportunity, due to the power of internal links. (3/11)

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Do you think about your homepage?

Hey there πŸ‘‹. I’m @shelbyblackley, SEO Manager for @mashable & co-creator of #WTFisSEO?, a newsletter that helps news publishers do search better. πŸ€“

SEO for news is complex. But your homepage is a secret to ranking.

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We spend hours upon hours optimizing our daily articles so Google will rank them in Top Stories, Google News, and Discover.

We focus a ton on optimizing the:
β˜‘οΈ Headlines
β˜‘οΈ Decks
β˜‘οΈ Slugs/URLs

of our daily news files.

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We wait patiently for Google to index the URL.

But what if there was a faster way for Google to find that fresh, new story you just published? πŸ€”πŸ€”

The crawlers need to get to it somehow. 🧐

Enter your homepage. πŸ”—

#SEOThread @shelbyblackley
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