About Nelson James

Nelson James is the President and co-founder of SEO.com. Over the last 6 years he has helped to grow the company from 2 to over 60 employees and over 200% year over year revenue growth.

He is passionate about helping SEO.com's clients develop and increase their traffic, leads, and conversions and, most importantly, ROI through SEO.com's search marketing services.

Nelson has a beautiful wife, a darling little girl named Madeline, and a tough little boy named Sam all of whom help him to work and play hard.

Top 4 Insights from the new Google Webmaster Tools Top Search Queries Feature

For those of you who aren’t aware yet, Google just announced some new features in Google Webmaster Tools. The most incredible is the top search queries enhancement which shows clickthrough rates, percentages and impressions along with some useful and pretty charts. This additional long-awaited data will provide webmasters with some incredible insights. Here are the top 4:

Matt Cutts and Evan Fishkin Shaved My Head at PubCon

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

A Blizzard and a Bet: Worth $5?

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The blizzard that happened on the 28 of this month was a great opportunity, to us. This video was created with no special effects, cgi, or professional stuntmen/actors. The crazy man with his shirt off is Adam, Nelson is filming it, and Scott is driving. The location is right out front of our office in [...]

The Matter of Page Rank

Countless times, prospective clients have approached our company asking us to help them increase their Google Page Rank; Not their monthly visitors, search traffic, rankings, leads, or conversion rate, but their Page Rank. There have been countless other times where prospective clients have turned away from our company because although our clients search engine rankings [...]

Emily Duffy
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