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Google Panda 2.5 Flux; Navigational Path StructuresAir Date: October 19, 2011
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.
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Air Date: September 28, 2011
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.
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Air Date: September 21, 2011
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.
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Air Date: August 24, 2011
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.
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Air Date: August 17, 2011
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.
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Air Date: August 3, 2011
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.
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Air Date: July 27, 2011
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.
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Air Date: July 20, 2011
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.
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Air Date: July 13, 2011
Vanessa gives her thoughts on Google+, their +1 metrics tools, and Bing’s new support for Google’s crawlable AJAX standard.
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Air Date: July 6, 2011
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.
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