Vanessa Fox

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Vanessa Fox
Website
http://ninebyblue.com

Vanessa Fox (born 1972) is a search engine optimization expert, writer and consultant best known for her work creating Google Webmaster Central and as a Google spokesperson. Google Webmaster Central is a set of tools, educational materials, and community to advise webmasters on on how to have their sites listed in Google, and to help solve problems they might have with the way Google indexes their pages.[1] [2] She is a prominent technology blogger[3], and a frequent speaker at industry events.[4][5][6]

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[edit] Career

Fox joined Google in 2005 as a technical writer in its Kirkland, Washington office. She left Google in June 2007, and briefly worked for real-estate startup Zillow. She is an Entrepreneur In Residence for Ignition Partners, a Seattle, Washington-based venture capital firm. Additionally, she is the founder of Nine By Blue, a marketing consultancy with an emphasis on search.

Fox, originally from Southern California, worked at a Seattle web startup and AOL before joining Google in 2005. While at Google, she was based at Google's Kirkland, Washington office.[7][8]

She is an adviser to Thinglabs and she is on the University of Washington's MSIM/Informatics advisory board.[citation needed]

[edit] Events

Vanessa Fox is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, including Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, Web 2.0 Conference, BlogHer and Ignite Seattle.

[edit] Books and Writing

In addition to being a Features Editor for Search Engine Land , Fox's first book, Marketing in the Age of Google, is scheduled for a March, 2010 release date. In the book, she explains from a businessperson's perspective how to develop a successful search engine strategy and how smaller companies can leverage search engine marketing to achieve parity with larger firms.

Fox's personal blog covers a wide range of topics, focusing mainly on technology, her mobile lifestyle, and search engine optimization from a personal perspective, in contrast to the Google Webmaster Central blog, where she wrote in an official capacity. In addition, a common topic on the blog is the tenuous relationship she has with her BlackBerry.[9] After Fox received her 30,000th unanswered email, she declared email bankruptcy.[10]

Fox's latest blogging project is Jane and Robot, which focuses on search-friendly design patterns for web developers.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Danny Sullivan, 8 Googler Alternatives To Superstar Matt Cutts, Search Engine Land, Dec. 1, 2006
  2. ^ "Google Webmaster Central". www.google.com. http://www.google.com/webmasters/. Retrieved 2008-08-31. 
  3. ^ "Fridays go from casual to e-mail-free - USATODAY.com". usatoday.com. http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2007-10-04-no-email_N.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-15. 
  4. ^ Vanessa Fox Speaker Bio, PubCon, accessed April 8, 2007
  5. ^ Profile, Vanessa Fox, Search Engine Strategies, accessed April 8, 2007
  6. ^ Blog, SEOmoz.org, accessed June 14, 2007
  7. ^ Seattle's Sisters of Search, Seattle24x7, accessed April 13, 2007
  8. ^ A Conversation with Google's Webmaster Central, Seattle24x7, accessed April 13, 2007
  9. ^ Blog, Vanessa Fox, where she discusses her malfunctioning BlackBerry, accessed June 6, 2007
  10. ^ "Office staff hit delete in war on e-mail monster - Times Online". www.timesonline.co.uk. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2652797.ece. Retrieved 2007-11-15. 

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