| Vanessa Fox | |
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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 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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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.[9]
Vanessa Fox is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, including Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, Web 2.0 Conference, BlogHer and Ignite Seattle.
Fox's book, Marketing in the Age of Google,[10] was published in May 2010 by Wiley, provides a blueprint for incorporating search strategy into organizations of all levels. She writes regularly for a number of offline and online publications, such as O'Reillly Radar[11] and Search Engine Land.[12] She also regularly writes about holistic marketing strategies that integrate searcher behavior at Nine By Blue[13] and search-friendly best practices for developers at Jane and Robot.[14]