Earlier than there was Google Search Console there was Google Webmaster Instruments, earlier than there was Google Webmaster Instruments there was Google Sitemaps. To inform you that story, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman interviewed the unique creator of this instrument, Vanessa Fox.
It brings again such nice recollections for me of the early days of Google Search and I assumed a few of you would possibly wish to hearken to it when you are including canonical tags to your websites?
Vanessa left Google in 2007 for a brief stint at Zillow after which doing a little fairly superb issues at different firms, solely to return again to search engine optimisation to do some consulting, talking and constructing out a powerful search engine optimisation toolset.
In any occasion, right here is that interview:
Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.
Be aware: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted at present, I’m at present offline for Rosh Hashanah.