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SEO Evil? Not To Vanessa Fox

Erstwhile Google Webmaster Central product manager Vanessa Fox reached back six months to discuss a perception about her famed former employer and search optimization.

Mahalo Making Social Improvements

Mahalo, everyone’s favorite human-powered search engine and Jason Calacanis venture, has announced a few more “socially” improvements to its site. One of the major updates leverages other social media sites; the other is frankly patterned after another.

Video: Vanessa Fox on Zillow

At SES San Jose I was able to sit down with Vanessa Fox to talk briefly about some of the basic features of the Google Webmaster Central service and posted that interview but was also able to do a second video about her new role at Zillow.

Google's Loss, Zillow's Gain

On a bittersweet note, Vanessa Fox announced in her official blog that she was leaving Google, the brand that has made her one of the most popular names among webmasters, for Zillow, a Real estate-based search engine.

Vanessa Fox Leaving Google

Google’s popular conference spokesperson and member of the Webmaster Central team, has announced that she is leaving the company to join real estate search company, Zillow.

Google Lets The Fox Out

The Google Eye-Candy Jar is officially less full. Webmaster Central's Vanessa Fox is leaving the search giant to pursue Rand Fishkin a job with Zillow. Vanessa Fox Moves

A Conversation With Google's Vanessa Fox

Nobody stands up Mike McDonald. Nobody, not even Google's Vanessa Fox. Back on a cold December day amid the howling Chicago winds, poor Mike sat alone, waiting for Google's Webmaster Central product manager. Alas, but all is vanity, and SEOMoz.org's Rand Fishkin stole the show (and the interview).

Should SEOs Avoid Sitemaps?

Rand Fishkin recently posted an interesting concept on his SEOmoz.org blog about sitemaps. For those of you keeping score at home, a sitemap is a document (typically xml) that sits on your server and helps search engine spiders crawl and index your site. Sounds great, right? Maybe… maybe not. Rand theorizes these sitemaps may actually be bad for your SEO efforts.

Get That Site Back Up Before It's Delisted

If you're site goes down for whatever reason, get it back up quickly or risk being de-listed from Google's index. Though it has been thought there may be somewhat of a grace period, it now seems robots only notice what's there when they arrive.

Webmaster Central Now Taking Comments

One of Google's official blogs, and one of the most useful to site publishers anywhere, has taken down the wall between posters and visitors to allow comments.