Loading ...Google’s Vanessa Fox agreed to an interview with Webpronews’ Mike McDonald at the SES conference in New York, and guess who didn’t show up this time. And since Rand Fishkin of seomoz.org already proved that video interviews were so easy a caveman could do it, Mike got his absent revenge and Rand got another shot at pinning her down that is on Webmaster issues.
Rand brings up some great questions, and Vanessa has some great answers. One of the most useful tips is deep into the video, so it’s a good idea to highlight it here.
The burning question: When a webmaster moves an entire site, what’s the best way to handle the dip in the search engine rankings while that transition is made?
The common sense answer: Fox stressed that it was a bad idea to simultaneously move a website to a new domain and redesign the whole thing. Instead, she says, take the pages from your old site and put them on your new site exactly as they are. Redirect the pages one at a time, carefully mapping on a one-to-one basis.
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Great video, most of the stuff I have heard her say before, but it is always interesting to see how Vanessa says it.
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I post a good write up on the interview here at WPW:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?p=360152
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How about asking/awnsering real questions like about government intervention in the search engine results? er, like direct intervention on a site by site basis? etc, you know, the unethical control of freedom etc?
Good content for the most part. However, these interview have too much chit chat and giggles. Let’s get more professional and keep to the topic – forget the private jokes the general audiences doesn’t get.
For some reason, it’s funny to watch this video on mute and just watch their body language/expressions.. Maybe I’m just odd..
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Please get Mike McDonald to do future interview with Fox. Mike is more polish, professional interviewer and get right to the important point.
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from her body language it looks like vanessa has the hots for rand.
i agree with comments above. this interview was more goofy and less useful.
Rand Fishkin are good at link building and SEO. However, he suck at conducting interview. Fishkin should learn to listen more and talk less. Leave any unrelated subject after the interview you are wasting our time watching this video.
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I really appreciate this video. I have experienced this dip in rankings when moving my site. I love the strategy you suggest.
Regarding Google base. I have been attempting to optimize for Google base with a lot of real estate clients I have had and its fun to let our clients know they are in the refinements section as well as in the organic and paid search listings. It gives them a warm fuzzy feeling inside ;-P.
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This is not bad advice, unlike a lot I have come across.
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