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Join Vanessa Fox every week to get the answers to those burning questions about your site. Everything from technical SEO issues, rankings problems, and search metrics to social media strategies, community building, and how to engage your audience. Vanessa is here to clear things up for you.
Vanessa discusses how people are both happy and unhappy with Google at the moment. She offers a recap of Google Panda developments saying that they are using different algorithms to evaluate different websites.
Discussing the Google News Standout Tag for Featured Content, a new link rel attribute that news organizations can use to mark their best work. Also, Amazon Fire Android Tablet Undermines Google by not including the Android Market or Google branding, though Google-branded apps will be available on the device.
At SMX East 2011, during the Pagination and SEO session, Google revealed their solution for one of the biggest issues in SEO , by using rel=next and rel=prev for handling paginated archives and posts. Vanessa explains.
Vanessa fields questions about the newest changes to Panda as it’s released in Europe and more languages, as well as tips for using analytics to optimize your site.
Vanessa talks about the new update to Bing and Yahoo!, how it effects your analytics, as well as the perils of trying to purchase a new item and merchants taking all the wrong steps to get a sale.
Vanessa discusses her recent Search Engine Land post that says Google has launched a new way for site owners to request that specific web pages be crawled. This leads the chatroom audience to discuss crawling and indexing for content.
Vanessa fills us in on the latest of the Panda 2.3 Update Rollout plus she directs us to a Stone Temple article where she discusses the philosophy that drove the Panda algorithm, and the implications of that philosophy going forward.
Vanessa discusses a recent Search Engine Land post entitled How Twitters Technical Infrastructure Issues Are Impacting Google Search Results where she describes how Technical infrastructure and architecture can make an impact on search.
Vanessa gives her thoughts on Google+, their +1 metrics tools, and Bing’s new support for Google’s crawlable AJAX standard.
Facebook announces its new Skype-powered video calling along with a new group text chat feature. Vanessa discusses that, Google Plus and a listener question on Unpersonalized SERPs.
Vanessa discusses the Panda 2.2 news that came out of the SMX Advanced 2011 conference, plus she gives her thoughts on Schema.org.
Vanessa discusses a Google survey that studied consumers on their choice of search engine between Google and Bing and a Google Webmaster Central blog post that tells us about their Search Globe, a new visual display representing one day of Google searches around the world.
Vanessa gives her take on Google +1. She also discusses a Mashable post that talks about Why Websites Are Slow and Why Speed Really Matters, plus By keeping users happy and Facebook at bay, could Google fix the newspaper business?
Vanessa answers a listener question about the First link counts rule, which says Google will follow the anchor text of only the first link. She also discuss headlines that include the Redesigned Bing Bar Toolbar, Google Search Results Get More Social and the best approach for SEO optimization of website navigation links.
Vanessa discusses Scoring the 2011 Super Bowl Commercials For Search Visibility and Visitor Engagement and discusses the AOL acquisition of the Huffington Post; Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis says it is Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race.
Google Algorithm Launch To Fight Content Spam Now Reality; Google Voice Number Porting Now Available, Google Alleges Bing Is Cheating Copying Their Search Results; Review Sites Rancor Rises With Prominence of Google Place Pages; Google Will Drop Real Estate Search and Listings From Maps.
Vanessa discusses her keynote address she gave earlier in the day at LinkShare Symposium West 2011. She explains how the core to SEO is good content and user engagement, raising awareness through different marketing channels.
Bing Powered Searches are Up 5 percent in December 2010, as Vanessa looks at how Google is dominating the worlds market share, plus how other search engines are faring worldwide. She also goes into a question on blog software installation and SEO myths like title tags, linkbuilding and more.
Vanessa discusses Bad reviews and their effect on site rankings, plus copyright development and how it impacts news publishers who are legally licensed to use syndicated stories.
Rich Snippets in Google Search Results. Vanessa talks about how Google Search Now Supports Microformats and Adds Rich Snippets to Search Results.
Vanessa discusses how Facebook went down Thursday, impeding access to the web site from browsers as well as third-party apps. She also answers a listener question on microformats.
Vanessa dispells the remarks made by Steve Rubel of Edleman Digital that SEO is supposedly dead thanks the new Google search enhancement called Google Instant. She describes what makes search engine optimization work and why Google Instant isnt the death knell for SEO.
Vanessa discusses a question posted on Google Webmaster Central on What is the best practice for preventing duplicate content issues with print versions of content? She also talks about backlinks and PageRank, and news of a revamp of their Bing Webmaster Tools.
Vanessa discusses possible changes Google might have made to their algorithm, plus how SERP Brand overload is not likely harming other results for the most part given contextual.
Vanessa answers questions on language anchors and links, Google Webmaster Tools, crawl errors, and she discusses some information from the Yahoo Search Marketing Blog that gave out Important information about the organic and paid search transition, new Yahoo! and Microsoft editorial guidelines, mobile updates and more.
Vanessa discusses the move by Bing to add their search results on Yahoo! She also answers questions on canonical links, 301 redirects, sitemaps and indexing and more.
In this all new broadcast, Vanessa brings her search engine land blog to life when she talks about the SEO implications for the new Google site map.
Vanessa elaborates on her Search Engine Land post titled Google Confirms Mayday Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic and how they been affecting people differently.
Vanessa discusses a recent Nine By Blue post she made entitled Should Restaurants Care About Local Search? She also talks about how The indexed URLs report had been showing zero pages indexed for most sites who have submitted sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools.
Google Senior Developer Programs Engineer Maile Ohye welcomes Vanessa into the Gogleplex, as they discuss Google Search Now Supports Microformats and Adds Rich Snippets to Search Results, plus Vanessa fills us in on the release of her new book entitled, Marketing in the Age of Google: Your Online Strategy IS Your Business Strategy.
Vanessa answers a question regarding the Remove URL Tool to quickly get out of a penalty. The listener asks if the Removal URL tool will help quicken the purge of white label pages in the link graph or are they shooting ourselves in the foot ignoring any SEO traffic those white label pages would have gotten them. She also answers other questions while on location in Brazil following a speaking engagement.
Vanessa discusses Microformats and RDFa following her appearance at a monthly search marketing forum for the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association. She also discusses a Vanity Fair Article written by Michael Wolff entitled Ringside at the Web Fight.
Vanessa tackles one of the discussions this week at SES London about International SEO and what is recommended if you have local sites on different TLDs in the same language and if there is a need for a canonical URL. She also answers questions regarding the Microsoft/Yahoo deal and its SEO implications, duplicate content issues, cross domain canonical tags , no index in robots and more.
Vanessa discusses Search Visibility of the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials, plus she discusses her thoughts on Google Buzz, and she answers listener questions on search engines are reading links in PDFs and if giving a PDF away instead of selling it will lead to more backlinks.
Vanessa answers listener questions on short URLs, eBook publishing, and robots.txt files. She also discusses how Google May Be Crawling AJAX Now and How To Best Take Advantage Of It, and The Latest On Google News Sitemaps.
Vanessa has just wrapped up guest teaching a class at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She does an impromptu site clinic with a student and she and the chat room audience offer the student some advice ion his website ThreadsForThought.com
Google Supports Cross-Domain Canonical Tag as they announced its support for using the rel=canonical link element across different domains. Vanessa also discusses several other headlines you might have missed over the holidays.
Vanessa discusses the launch of Google Real Time Search and how search engines to try to show the most relevant results and in addition for Google, offering the latest results.
Vanessa talks with Enquisite CEO Richard Zwicky about their speaking presentations on location from Pubcon 2009, plus Richard takes over the show and brings on Todd Friesen who brings up a paid links debate and are they evil.
Vanessa discusses the recent news about Google Removing PageRank Data From Webmaster Tools, plus she answers a chatroom question on how Googlebot message about too many URLs include URLs excluded by robots.txt, plus questions on sitemaps, indexing and more.
Vanessa discusses session ids, plus answers questions on Google product search, subdomains when it comes to search engines passing link value , ranking with Google Caffeine and more.
From the tradeshow floor of SES San Jose 2009, enjoy some Conference Chatter with Good ROI Greg Niland. Greg and Vanessa discuss the IM Charity Party and how well it went, plus new projects Greg has been working on.
Vanessa discusses What Site Owners, Web Developers & SEOs Should Know About The Yahoo Microsoft Deal, plus she answers questions like how much filtering or modification to the Bing feed do you think Yahoo will do for organic results.
Vanessa comments on a Search Engine Roundtable story entitled "SEO Company Caught By Client Using Google Support Forums", and she discuss the positives of using forums no matter your amount of experience.
Vanessa comments on the New IT Dashboard on the redesigned USASpending.gov, plus she revisits her discussion on ranking metrics and how well your website is being indexed and crawled.
Vanessa is joined with guests to answers questions on using internal nofollow links and Pagerank evaporation, if Blogger is a good option for business bloggers, her thoughts on Google giving full value for a link just below an iframe for a widget and more.
On location from Microsoft's Bing Search Summit, Vanessa discusses the newly unveiled search engine with former SEO Rockstars Todd "Oilman" Friesen and Greg Webguerilla" Boser.
Ryan Stewart, Evangelist for Adobe's Integrated Runtime project (AIR) speaks to Vanessa on location from the Webvisions Visionary Web Conference in Portland, Oregon. Ryan goes into the technical issues with SEO and Adobe, and the improvements they have been making to make their Flash applications more crawler-friendly.
Vanessa fills us in on her conference trip to Slovenia, which leads to her discussion about international SEO and online marketing, and how cultural differences play a part
Vanessa answers a listener question on User Engagement and the kind of metrics you can use to measure it, fills us in on details of an upcoming Yahoo meetup, plus a question on rankings and re-listing.
Social Media and Unlimited Bandwidth for Spidering are among the topics Vanessa discusses on location from Web 2.0 Expo 2009 with guests Deb Schultz and Jonathan Hochman.
Vanessa discusses site review panels following her presentation on "On-Site Insight! Technical SEO Advice from the Pros" at Searchfest 2009
A question on Canonical Tag Adoption news A listener asks whether to use Hyphens or Underscores in a long URL for SEO.
Listener question on Audio Sitemaps and Search and how you can submit audio content to Google, plus a site review of Oddball.com.
URL Structures, Dynamic Urls, Navigation links Google crawling talk with Developer Programs Tech Lead fior Google Maile Ohye
Vanessa answers questions on Bounce Rates and Stumble Upon, plus she gives a SMX West 09 Panel Preview
A look at educational community site TeachStreet.com plus she answers questions on duplicate content including how blackhat SEOs are pulling down duplicate content from competitors, plus local search, and metrics.
Vanessa discusses the biggest on site issues that often get overlooked, plus she discusses how people lose sight about who their customers are, plus how theyre more worried about getting links