Office Hours

Removing URL to Avoid Penalty

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:39:10 +0000

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.

Microformats and RDFa

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:03:44 +0000

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.

International SEO and Local Sites

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:00:22 +0000

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.

Search Visibility of 2010 Super Bowl Commercials

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:31:02 +0000

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.

Google AJAX and News Sitemaps

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:03:12 +0000

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.

SEO Site Clinic with a Carnegie Mellon Student

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:00:17 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:52:57 +0000

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.

Real Time Search Results

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:13:37 +0000

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.

Google Labs Overview

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:15:43 +0000

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.

Are Paid Links Evil?

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:14:43 +0000

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.

Social Network User Status

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:04:14 +0000

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, splitting PageRank, robots.txt and more.

PageRank Dropped from Google Webmaster Tools

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:11:18 +0000

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.

Session Ids and Google Product Search

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:27:08 +0000

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.

Conference Chatter with Good ROI

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:33:33 +0000

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.

In House Corporate SEO

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:43:23 +0000

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.

She also discusses getting adapted to her new Google Android after replacing her iPhone and answers chatroom questions.

Yahoo Microsoft Deal Effect on Owners, Developers and SEOs

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:18:28 +0000

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.

Effect of SEO on the Bottom Line

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:47:45 +0000

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.

Using Google Support Forums

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:29:04 +0000

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.

Website Ranking and Metrics Revisited

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:30:05 +0000

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.

No Follow Links and Google Widgets

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:32:50 +0000

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.

Microsoft’s Bing Search Summit

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:37:15 +0000

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.

Adobe Flash Improvements

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:48:52 +0000

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.

International SEO and Online Marketing

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:04:30 +0000

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.

User Engagement

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:19:26 +0000

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.

Web 2.0 Expo 2009

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:33:17 +0000

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.

Google Webmaster tools API

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:53:33 +0000

Questions come up about Google Webmaster tools API and wanting to use the for crawling, reports and errors, plus questions on acknowledging errors in GWT.

Site Review Panels

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:08:15 +0000

Vanessa discusses site review panels following her presentation on “On-Site Insight! Technical SEO Advice from the Pros” at Searchfest 2009

Canonical Tag Adoption

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:02:00 +0000

A question on Canonical Tag Adoption news A listener asks whether to use Hyphens or Underscores in a long URL for SEO.

Audio Sitemaps and Search

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:24:31 +0000

Listener question on Audio Sitemaps and Search and how you can submit audio content to Google, plus a site review of Oddball.com.

Best Ways to Change Domains

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:33:37 +0000

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.

URL Structures and Dynamic URLS

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:42:27 +0000

URL Structures, Dynamic Urls, Navigation links Google crawling talk with Developer Programs Tech Lead fior Google Maile Ohye

SMX West 09 Panel Preview

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:38:52 +0000

Vanessa answers questions on Bounce Rates and Stumble Upon, plus she gives a SMX West 09 Panel PrevVanessa answers questions on Bounce Rates and Stumble Upon, plus she gives a SMX West 09 Panel Preview view

TeachStreet and Duplicate Content

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:36:43 +0000

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.

On Site Issues Overlooked

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:30:30 +0000

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