I had the distinct pleasure of spending an hour on the phone with Vanessa Fox, Product Manager of Google Webmaster Central, interviewing her just over a week ago. Our discussions ran the gamut of SEO issues — redirects, duplicate content, AJAX, Flash, PageRank, and of course, the wealth of tools and reports that Google has made available in their Webmaster Central.

The interview has been edited down to 40 minutes and is now available for download:

Download / Listen to the interview » (MP3, 9 megs)

Vanessa will be speaking at two of the upcoming American Marketing Association one-day conferences, titled Hot Topic: Search Engine Marketing. Her colleague Amanda Camp will be speaking at the other one.

I will be conducting interviews of all the illustrious faculty of search marketers over the coming weeks, so be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed to get these podcasts delivered directly to you automatically as they are published.

These conferences present a unique opportunity to hear — in a small intimate environment with dozens of delegates instead of hundreds — the latest tips, tricks, tools, trends and best practices from Googlers Vanessa Fox or Amanda Camp along with search marketing practitioners and gurus Eric Ward, Neil Patel, Alan Rimm-Kaufman, Chris Smith (SuperPages.com), Paul O’Brien (HP) to name a few. 🙂 Oh, and I’ll be speaking too, as well as chairing the events.

Mark your calendars: April 20 in San Francisco, May 25 in NYC, and June 22 in Chicago.

Hope to see you there!