Description

Jack Chambers-Ward and Mark Williams-Cook reunite in the Candour studio to discuss the early reactions to SearchGPT, the helpful content update might not be what you think and how robots.txt can interact with redirects to cause indexing confusion.

Links and resources

• SE Ranking SearchGPT research
• Combined SearchGPT analysis on SEJ
• The helpful content update isn't what you think it is
• When robots.txt gets stuck in the middle of your redirects

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Chapters

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:01:12 - Sponsor: Optmyzr
• 00:04:02 - Live podcast in Brighton on 2 Oct 2024
• 00:06:01 - Early reactions to SearchGPT
• 00:26:26 - The helpful content update was not what you think
• 00:37:03 - What happens when redirect URLs are blocked by robots.txt?
• 00:43:00 - SEO is heading towards a big change
• 00:45:17 - Outro