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Category: Office Hours
August 26, 2010
Vanessa talks about best practices for pagination URL structure and duplicate content issues with printer versions of said paginated articles. She also dives in to backlinks and Pagerank before talking about Glee. Links mentioned: preventing duplicate content issues with print versions of content Somebody added 120k backlinks to my site…and my PR went … Continue reading »
August 19, 2010
Vanessa talks about the Google algo change and how it affects brand names in search. Then, Vanessa takes lots of questions from the chat room on TLDs, blocking bad links and if “>>>>” in your title tags hurts your rankings. Articles Mentioned: Google Treating Brand Names in Search Terms Google Search Results Dominated … Continue reading »
August 5, 2010
Vanessa is super stoked because she got a tweet from the bridge here in Seattle. This launches her into a lecture about how important social media is and how quickly it can raise awareness. In this case, the government owns the twitter account, and so there is no monetary value in tweeting, but … Continue reading »
July 22, 2010
Yahoo says 25% of their results are now powered by Bing, so Vanessa digs into some questions she has. She talks about how time sensitive, spam and movie queries are handled in Bing as opposed to Yahoo, and then of course, comparing those to Google. Yahoo has said they plan on controlling the UI of the search … Continue reading »
July 15, 2010
Vanessa’s book Marketing in the Age of Google is being translated into Portuguese and will be available in Brazil soon! Vanessa talks about Googles changing algorithms and how they are impacting search results- in reply to the recent uproar inspired by a New York Times article. She then talks about the testing of … Continue reading »
July 12, 2010
Vanessa finds her way back to Seattle to host this week’s office hours. She dives in to everything that’s happened in the last month- SEO implications with the new Google sitemaps- which lets you submit sitemaps for images, video, news and more. Since Google is the only search engine doing this, does that … Continue reading »
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