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By Vanessa Fox
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Podcast Description
Get your Technical SEO Issues answered by one of the most sought after experts in SEO, analytics and web development with your host Vanessa Fox. Vanessa will take your questions via email, Twitter, or on her blog, on various technical SEO issues, including rankings problems, search metrics, web strategy, social media, community building, audience engagement, how to get a startup funded and more.
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Google Panda 2.5 Flux; Navigational Path Structures | 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. | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google News Standout Tag for Featured Content | 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, | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Handling Paginated Archives and Posts | 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. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More Panda As it Releases Across Europe | 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. | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bing and Yahoo! Algorithm Update and How to Scare Away a Customer | 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. | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Method for Submitting URLs to Google | 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. | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Panda Algorithm Rollout Update | 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. | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Twitter Technical Infrastructure Impacting Google Search | 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. | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Plus Status Report | Vanessa gives her thoughts on Google+, their +1 metrics tools, and Bing's new support for Google's crawlable AJAX standard. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Facebook Video Chat, Google Plus and Unpersonalized SERPs | 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. | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Panda 2.2, Schema, HTML5 and Keywords | Vanessa discusses the Panda 2.2 news that came out of the SMX Advanced 2011 conference, plus she gives her thoughts on Schema.org. | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google or Bing, Search Globe and Matt Cutts on the Google Panda Update | 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 sear... | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Website Speed and the Google Solution for Newspapers | 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? | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Farmer/Panda updates from SMX West | Vanessa tells us about the discussion of Google Farmer/Panda, and the updates coming out of SMX West about how low quality pages can pull a whole sites rankings down. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The First Link Counts and the Bing Bar Toolbar | 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, | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scoring the 2011 Super Bowl Commercials | 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. | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Algorithm Launch To Fight Content Spam Now Reality | 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 E... | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Core to SEO is Good Content and User Engagement | 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. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Which Search Engine Controls the Market Share? | 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... | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bad Reviews and their Effect on Site Rankings | 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. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Instant Preview | Google Instant Preview is a new way that Google Now Lets You Preview Search Results Before You Click Them. Plus, Google Creates Source Meta Tags To Help ID Original News Sources. | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rich Snippets in Google Search Results | Rich Snippets in Google Search Results. Vanessa talks about how Google Search Now Supports Microformats and Adds Rich Snippets to Search Results. | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Facebook Goes Down | 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. | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SEO Not Dead Because of Google Instant | 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 dea... | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best Practices for Preventing Duplicate Content | 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, | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SERP Brand Overload Effects | 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. | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bing Yahoo Organic and Paid Search Transition | 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, | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bing Results Showing Up on Yahoo | 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. | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yahoo Testing Bing Powered Results | Vanessa comments on how Yahoo Begins Testing Bing Powered Results his Month | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Google Site Map | 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. | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Confirms Mayday Update | Vanessa elaborates on her Search Engine Land post titled Google Confirms Mayday Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic and how they been affecting people differently. | 5/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google I/O | On location from Google I/O,a two day conference that features leaders and technical experts in web application, Vanessa interviews the open source and public sector programs manager at Google, Chris Dibona. | 5/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microsites Pros and Cons | Vanessa discuses why microsites are often not the best strategy to pursue. She tells us how they affect brand identity and audience engagement, as well as how they can confuse people and search engines. | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Local Search and Page Indexing | 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 Webmast... | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rich Snippets to Google Search Results | 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, | 4/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Removing URL to Avoid Penalty | 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 a... | 3/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microformats and RDFa | 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 Fi... | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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International SEO and Local Sites | 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. | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Search Visibility of 2010 Super Bowl Commercials | 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 l... | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google AJAX and News Sitemaps | 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. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SEO Site Clinic with a Carnegie Mellon Student | 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. | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Supports Cross-Domain Canonical Tag | 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. | 1/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Real Time Search Results | 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. | 12/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Labs Overview | Vanessa does an overview of the new Google Labs, an area reserved for Google products that are not yet ready for prime time, plus she answers some chatroom questions. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are Paid Links Evil? | 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. | 11/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Social Network User Status | Vanessa discusses the results of a the Pew Internet & American Life Survey that say that almost 20 percent of US Internet users are on Twitter or updating their status with another social network. She also answers listener questions on load times, | 10/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PageRank Dropped from Google Webmaster Tools | 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, | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session Ids and Google Product Search | 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. | 8/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conference Chatter with Good ROI | 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. | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In House Corporate SEO | Vanessa is back from a Jane and Robot meetup at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, where she spoke with their in house SEOs about what its like to do SEO at a large corporation that also happens to have a search engine. | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yahoo Microsoft Deal Effect on Owners, Developers and SEOs | 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. | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Effect of SEO on the Bottom Line | Vanessa answers a question about if a competitor makes a sudden rise for highly competetive term best investigation tactics, plus she discusses a Search Engine Land post that says useless SEO parlor tricks have little-to-no effect on the bottom line. | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Using Google Support Forums | 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. | 7/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Website Ranking and Metrics Revisited | 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. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No Follow Links and Google Widgets | Vanessa answers question on topics ranging from No Follow Links to Google Widgets. | 6/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microsoft’s Bing Search Summit | SEO Rockstars Todd "Oilman" Friesen and Greg Webguerilla" Boserjoin Vanessa on location from Microsoft's Bing Search Summit. | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adobe Flash Improvements | Adobe Flash Improvements and what Adobe has been doing to to make their Flash applications more crawler-friendly. | 5/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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International SEO and Online Marketing | International SEO and Online Marketing and how cultural differences play a part. | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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User Engagement | Vanessa answers a listener question on User Engagement and the kind of metrics you can use to measure it | 4/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Web 2.0 Expo 2009 | Social Media and Unlimited Bandwidth for Spidering are among the topics Vanessa discusses on location from Web 2.0 Expo 2009 | 4/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Webmaster tools API | Questions come up about Google Webmaster tools API. | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Site Review Panels | Vanessa discusses site review panels following her presentation on "On-Site Insight! Technical SEO Advice from the Pros" at Searchfest 2009 | 3/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Canonical Tag Adoption | A question on Canonical Tag Adoption news A listener asks whether to use Hyphens or Underscores in a long URL for SEO. | 3/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Audio Sitemaps and Search | Vanessa answers a Listener question on Audio Sitemaps and Search. | 2/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best Ways to Change Domains | Learn the best ways to go about changing domains, plus some advice to the whitehouse.gov webmasters, plus she follows up on her discussion of bounce rates as it relates to SEO, and the importance of ranking high for a query | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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URL Structures and Dynamic URLS | URL Structures, Dynamic Urls, Navigation links Google crawling talk with Developer Programs Tech Lead fior Google Maile Ohye | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SMX West 09 Panel Preview | Vanessa answers questions on Bounce Rates and Stumble Upon, plus she gives a SMX West 09 Panel Preview | 2/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TeachStreet and Duplicate Content | 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. | 1/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On Site Issues Overlooked | 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 | 1/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 69 Episodes |
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I would like to see the audio quality to improve but the content is pretty good.
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Great information on SEO best practices!
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