Vanessa lauches into some Buffy questions from some listeners before diving into a discussion of Google’s launch of Real Time Search, and how spammy it may be.
Vanessa also brushes on Google’s page fade in and Google’s personalized results, the later of which will affect rankings reports.
Articles Mentioned:
Search Engine Land: Google Launches Real Time Search
Search Engine Land: Google Now Personalizes Everyones Search Results
Search Engine Land: Google’s Personalized Results The New Normal
Enquisite: Google Search Update Ranking Report Really is Dead Finally
Sebastians-pamphlets: How to Spam real Time Search Via Twitter
Outspoken Media: Google Real Time Spam
Vanessa talks about a new launch in Google Webmaster Tools in the Labs: Site Performance- How fast is your site? Which provides the average load time of pages and compares it to the rest of the web.
Vanessa also takes questions from Twitter and the chat room about the URL removal tool, Joomla, meta tags, and when she’s going back to europe.
Mike Mcdonald of WebProNews catches up with Vanessa at pubcon 2009 about her new book, Marketing in the Age of Google.
NVI solutions interviews Vanessa at Pubcon 2009 about Google Caffeine.
Marketing in the Age of Google Interview with Lee Odden
Office Hours Nov 12th 2009.
Richard Zwicky (@zwicky) of Enquisite joins Vanessa at Pubcon to talk about helping businesses drive more customers organically.
The two of them talk about what mistakes people make while analyzing data about their website, such as not installing tracking codes properly, or not at all.
The two dive into an interesting discussion about query length. People are getting smarter about search engines, and now 5 word queries are as popular as one word queries- as far as click-through, and people are getting more qualified traffic.
Todd Friesen (@oilman) tags in for Vanessa- who had to jet-set- and the conversation turns to black hat and the tricks that don’t work anymore. Todd admits that quality content is actually worth putting time into.
Finally, the two talk about one of the the largest controversies in the industry: buying links- is it evil? The two share a secret about where the business really is.
Vanessa Fox was caught on camera by SeoExpertTV on the SEO Vets Mega Session:
MEGA Session: SEO Vets Take All Comers
Keyword Density Discussed During MEGA Session at SMX Advanced 2009
Experts Discuss PageRank Sculpting During MEGA Session
The Importance of Content for SEO From the Mega Session
For years, Google’s discovery of web pages was solely based on links. If a page had no links to it, Googlebot had no way of knowing about it and therefore, would never index it. Along the way, Google provided an option for submitting individual pages, but that wasn’t really a viable option for site owners with large sites.
Read more at Search Engine Land
When we want to find more information about something, hear about something interesting from our friends, see a compelling television commercial, or need a local mechanic, chances are the first place we turn is the Google search box. Fifty percent of us in the United States use search engines every day and over 90% of us search every month. These days, your search strategy is your business strategy, whether you realize it or not, because that’s how potential customers are trying to find you. Search is the new yellow pages, 800 number, Sunday circular, card catalog, and cash register. No matter what kind of web site you have–whether it’s a media property like a blog, an ecommerce site, or the online arm of multinational corporation–you want to connect with as many of your potential audience as possible, and organic search can help make that happen.
Read more at Radar.oreilly.com.
Office Hours Oct 22, 2009
20% of those on the internet update their status on social networking sites? Vanessa discusses how more people are joining the “geeks” and doing the Facebook thing.
Vanessa talks about a case study where the ranking dropped off- Vanessa solves the case!
Last, Vanessa answers the steps to take when you think part of your site is not being indexed.
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