The Recipe For SEO Success Show

Welcome to another mouth-watering episode of the Recipe for SEO Success podcast. I'm your host, Kate Toon, the head chef in this delightful digital kitchen where we whip up scrumptious SEO strategies to elevate your online presence. Today we're diving into the tantalizing world of e-commerce SEO, sprinkling a dash of insight on the latest search engine result pages changes.

Joining us at the table is the insightful Jason Mun, who's here to guide us newbies through this ever-evolving landscape. So sharpen your SEO forks and knives because we're about to serve up some seriously actionable advice that'll have your e-commerce efforts rising to the top, like a perfectly baked souffle. Let's get cooking.

Tune in to learn: 

• What Google has recently changed in the SERPs that impacts ecommerce businesses

• How to be featured in Google’s SERP organic shopping carousel

• What impacts your ability to appear in the carousel

• How product reviews can help boost your visibility

• How labels can help you advertise your sales in Google Merchant Center

• How you can reduce your workload and optimise your products

• How Google’s brand knowledge panel works

• Jason’s advice for ecommerce stores trying to build up their brand entity

• How important category pages are, and why you should focus on them.

Useful resources: 

• SEO-Friendly Product Description Template

• Google Merchant Center

• Ecommerce SEO in 2025 with Louis Smith (NEWBIE)

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Freebies:

1. Free webinar: Increase your website traffic (and sales)

2. The Ultimate SEO Checklist

3. Free SEO Nibbles Course

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It's a Toon tip day, and I want to talk to you about intrusive interstitials (aka pop ups).

Now, there's one funny thing about Google. Well, there's many funny things about Google, but one of them is the way they refer to things, they do have a rather la-di-doodle way of talking about things. So they talk about intrusive interstitials being a problem on websites, and what they mean by that is pop-ups. So, today I wanna talk about pop-ups and their impact on your ability to rank,  sell, build customer loyalty and keep people on your site.

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Freebies:

1. Free online training: Increase your website traffic (and sales)

2. The Ultimate SEO Checklist

3. SEO SOS Challenge

4. Free SEO Nibbles Course

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If you’re listening to this podcast, you’re probably already trying to save money by doing SEO yourself. 

But one of the biggest struggles for people doing DIY SEO is building backlinks. 

That’s often why they resort to using an SEO agency, and let’s be honest, good SEO agencies aren’t cheap.  

That’s because building quality backlinks takes a big amount of time. You’ve got to build the relationship, you’ve got to get the good content out there and even then it can take a while for those links to flow through. 

But today I’ve got an amazing guest on to talk about a revolutionary idea: Can you still rank well without link-building?

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Tune in to learn: 

• What a backlink is, and what it does

• How you can still compete with competitors that invest heavily in backlinks

• How small local businesses can create great content that organically gets shared online

• How to assess what kind of content Google is prioritising in your niche or industry

• How using Google Analytics can show you how people engage with your website

• Why click-through rate is important to focus on

Useful resources: 

• What the eff are entities in SEO? with Nik Ranger (NEWBIE)

• Banned Books Brochure

• SEO Forecasting: How to Predict and Plan the Future with Dan Petrovic (NEWBIE)

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Freebies:

1. Free webinar: Increase your website traffic (and sales)

2. The Ultimate SEO Checklist

3. Free SEO Nibbles Course

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If you bought a small bookshop in a coastal town, in pretty much the middle of nowhere, what would you do to make it a success? In this episode, I'm going to be telling you exactly what I've done to try and make my new bookshop, Umina Beach Book Nook, rank well on Google and build a community of loyal and loving fans. It's going to be a combination of marketing, copywriting, SEO, a whole lot of hard work.

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1. Free online training: Increase your website traffic (and sales)

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3. SEO SOS Challenge

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Connecting with community and promoting yourself

Getting people through the door can be a constant struggle, which is why SEO is so important for local businesses.I know this for real now that I have a bookshop.

But with all the changes Google has made, how do you stand out in the local pack? Is the local pack even a thing anymore?

Today I’m chatting with a Local SEO expert about the latest advice, so stay Tooned.

Tune in to learn:

• What local SEO is, and how it differs from normal organic SEO
• How search intent and local results work
• How to appear on the local pack
• Why your Google Business Profile is so important
• How to appear in the top three of the map pack
• Why the Q&A section of your Google Business Profile is so powerful
• How to manage negative reviews 
• How local link building differs from regular link building. 
• How to connect more within your community to raise awareness of your business

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Useful resources: 

• Google Business Profile

• Ultimate SEO Checklist

Head to episode notes 

Freebies:

1. Free webinar: Increase your website traffic (and sales)

2. The Ultimate SEO Checklist

3. Free SEO Nibbles Course

Sign up for the Recipe for SEO Success Course