Nelson James

Matt Cutts and Evan Fishkin Shaved My Head at PubCon

On a bet Matt Cutts told Evan Fishkin at the SEOMOZ party that he would shave his head if, during the site reviews, someone asked for their site to be reviewed and it ended up being a spam site. Well, it happened. After the session, a bunch of us were asking Matt questions and we [...]

When White Hat SEO Turns Black

I recently caught wind of the ability to grow perfect white (or clear) diamonds in a lab. They have been able to create colored diamonds in labs for some time now, but the white diamond idea intrigued me so I started doing some research. I searched on “white man-made diamonds”, “cultured white diamonds”, “synthetic white [...]

Universal Search Gone Hog Wild

I was doing some searching around the other day and came across this page of results in Google Malaysia that has 5 out of the first 10 results as video results and one other as a news result with a picture, along with the related search links at the bottom of the page. Looks to [...]

Google’s Matt Cutts: Top 5 Things to do to Optimize Your Site

I asked a question to Matt Cutts through Google Moderator today at PubCon South. “What are the top 5 things you would do to optimize your site?” Here was his response:
URL Structure/Site Architecture
– Starting out with a good URL structure is obviously important to both the search engines and users. There were a couple [...]

Why SEO Will Never Die

Okay, first off I have to give props to Jeff Call one of my coworkers whom I asked to create a simple depiction of SEO not dying and he came back to me with this masterpiece in no time:

Incredible! I wish I had that kind of talent. Now onto the post:
There is constantly talk about [...]

Google Predicts Obama for President

Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States, according to Google Trends.
Based on our previous analysis of Google Trends leading up to Super Tuesday, we predicted Obama and McCain would come out on top after Super Tuesday. As it ended up, Google Trends was only about 70% correct in a state-by-state comparison [...]

Google Predicts Super Tuesday Results

According to Google’s results, Obama and McCain will be the front-runners for their parties after today. The amount of Google searches for a candidate’s last name has directly correlated with the winner of that state in every primary and caucus to date.

From the Iowa Caucus on January 3rd to Maine’s Caucus on February 1st, the [...]