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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.

Latest Show Episodes & Updates

Google Confirms Mayday Update
Air Date: May 27, 2010

Vanessa elaborates on her Search Engine Land post titled Google Confirms Mayday Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic and how they been affecting people differently.



Google I/O
Air Date: May 21, 2010

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.



Microsites Pros and Cons
Air Date: May 13, 2010

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.



Local Search and Page Indexing
Air Date: April 29, 2010

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.



Rich Snippets to Google Search Results
Air Date: April 1, 2010

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.



Removing URL to Avoid Penalty
Air Date: March 18, 2010

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
Air Date: February 25, 2010

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
Air Date: February 18, 2010

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
Air Date: February 11, 2010

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
Air Date: February 4, 2010

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.