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Sep 2024
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#346 - Hot or Not: Test Your HCU Radar

Gael Breton & Mark Webster - Full Stack Online Marketers
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In today's episode, we are playing Google Update Roulette.

The rules are very simple:
1. We give you a URL and you have three minutes to open it, look at the site and decide if it went up or down with the recent Google update.
2. You are not allowed to use any SEO tools to look at recent trends, backlinks or traffic, just your gut feeling, clicking around and Googling things.

Play along, count your your points and let us know what your score is in the comments.

And if you're not interested in playing, don't worry.
There’s a lot for you in this episode as well, because each of the examples that we are going through is symptomatic of a major change that we've seen with the August 2024 core update.
And we'll go through a short analysis of what happened and other sites that have seen these changes too, once we reveal the answer for each website.

So whether you're looking to play along or you just want to know what has changed with the recent Google update, there is something for you in this episode.
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Host: Gael Breton & Mark Webster

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/346-hot-or-not-test-your-hcu-radar/
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https://search-intelligence.co.uk/
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