Office Hours On Webmasterradio.fm

[Vanessa dispells the remarks made by Steve Rubel of Edleman Digital that SEO is supposedly dead thanks the new Google search enhancement called Google Instant. She describes what makes search engine optimization work and why Google Instant isnt the death knell for SEO./>

[Vanessa discusses a question posted on Google Webmaster Central on What is the best practice for preventing duplicate content issues with print versions of content? She also talks about backlinks and PageRank, and news of a revamp of their Bing Webmaster Tools./>

[Vanessa discusses possible changes Google might have made to their algorithm, plus how SERP Brand overload is not likely harming other results for the most part given contextual./>

[Vanessa answers questions on language anchors and links, Google Webmaster Tools, crawl errors, and she discusses some information from the Yahoo Search Marketing Blog that gave out Important information about the organic and paid search transition, new Yahoo! and Microsoft editorial guidelines, mobile updates and more./>

[Vanessa discusses the move by Bing to add their search results on Yahoo! She also answers questions on canonical links, 301 redirects, sitemaps and indexing and more. />

[Vanessa comments on how Yahoo Begins Testing Bing Powered Results his Month/>

[In this all new broadcast, Vanessa brings her search engine land blog to life when she talks about the SEO implications for the new Google site map. />

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

[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./>

[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./>

[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./>

[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. />

[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./>

[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. />

[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. />

[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./>

[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. />

[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. />

[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. />

[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. />