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 device, 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 take heed to it while you’re including canonical tags to your websites?

Vanessa left Google in 2007 for a brief stint at Zillow after which performing some fairly superb issues at different corporations, solely to come back again to search engine optimization to do some consulting, talking and constructing out a formidable search engine optimization toolset.

In any occasion, right here is that interview:

Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.

Observe: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted in the present day, I’m presently offline for Rosh Hashanah.