http://www.ajazi.com/blog Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:00:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 2009, Google made a lot of changes to its page one search results, not the least of which was the placement testing of Google Product Search (formerly Google Base and/or Froogle) listings in the natural results. At times, if someone searched for a particular product or class of product, ... http://www.ajazi.com/blog/google-product-search-results-poach-traditional-natural-search-traffic/ Old-time crooner Beef Wellington is at it again (er, still). His new conquest is the internet and he has hired me to help him take the web by storm. Everyone knows Beef Wellington, who's career dates back to the late fifties, has been entertaining barren audiences with a charm and wit ... http://www.ajazi.com/blog/beef-wellington-back-in-the-saddle/ I have a hard time with the concept of buying links for the purpose of ranking higher in the search engine results pages (SERP) or increasing a site's PageRank. But I'm not so sure why or what aspect of it bothers me. On the one hand, Google frowns upon paid link building ... http://www.ajazi.com/blog/paid-link-building/ Many have wondered whether or not "nofollow" links actually pass any value in spite of the fact that they are not passing PageRank. I know I have. My personal belief was that having keyword-optimized inbound links pointing to relevant landing pages should/would allow that page to rank higher for that keyword ... http://www.ajazi.com/blog/do-nofollow-links-pass-link-equity/ So I used to keep a blog on another domain called Persona Non Gravy. This blog was a mixture of SEO tips, tidbits, ideas, etc. coupled with some hilarious musings and other trivialities. I will be resurrecting this concept here on my main domain ajazi.com albeit I won't be updating the ... http://www.ajazi.com/blog/free-seo-blog/