Googlebot ignoring the rel=nofollow attribute

azam | SEO | Thursday, September 27th, 2007

This discovery is likely going to throw spanner to the works for many SEO’s out there. I have evidence to show that Googlebot does not abide by its own rules.

Google Webmaster Tools: Pages that link to yours report identified a couple of links (more…)

Am I really an SEO Dark Lord?

azam | SEO | Monday, September 17th, 2007

Wow. I just took this quiz on SEOmoz.org to test my knowledge on SEO.

I must say I learnt a thing or two while taking the test, especially those questions that addressing SEO angles I did not thought of before, but made some off-the-cuff educated guesses (you can say ‘lucky shots’). (more…)

How I got to #2 in Google within 24 hours

azam | SEO, Marketing | Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Well, well. What do you know?

This site got crawled by Googlebot within an hour of it going live, then went into Google’s main index within the day. No big deal, right. Yeah, what blew me away was that my introductory page ranked #2 for my name!
ranked 2 in Google within 24 hours

The following was what little I had done to achieve this: (more…)

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