Dave Davies is the owner of Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization. He has been optimizing and ranking websites for over three years and has a solid history of success. Dave is available to answer any questions that you may have about your website and how to get it into the top positions on the major search engines.


Google Instant & SEO

Published on 21 September 2010 by in Internet Marketing

Google Instant & SEO

From the moment Google Instant was announced back on September 8 there have been forum chats, blog posts, articles and podcasts discussing the ramification of this new technology. Some have called it the “Death of SEO” which others (myself included) have proclaimed this a step forward and an opportunity for SEO’s, not a threat. And [...]

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Competition Analysis Basics for SEO

In my last article titled, “Keyword Research Basics for SEO” I discussed keyword research and the basics of keyword selection.  Of course – you can’t solidify your targets until you understand what you’re up against.  All the keyword research in the world won’t help you rank for the keyword phrase “windows” in 6 months with [...]

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Keyword Research Basics For SEO

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again … there is no more important step in the SEO process than keyword research. One could make a compelling argument for link building or for architecture or for copywriting but at the end of the day – ranking highly for keywords that either don’t convert or [...]

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The SEO’s Toolkit Part Three of Three: Resources

Welcome to part three of this three part series on SEO tools and resources. In the last two articles we discussed the variety of Firefox extensions used for SEO as well as an assortment of other free or affordable SEO tools. In this article we’ll discuss some of the resources you’ll want to access on [...]

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The SEO’s Toolkit Part Two of Three: Tools

Welcome to part two of this three part series on SEO tools and resources. In the last article we discussed the variety of Firefox extensions used for SEO. In this article we’ll discuss some of the free and affordable tools you can use to better your organic optimization efforts. To make sure that when I [...]

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The SEO’s Toolkit Part One of Three: Firefox

Every SEO uses different tools and resources. Some tools are paid, some are free and some are internally developed tools that we use for ourselves and our clients – but we all use them. Very often I get asked what tools people should use if they’re looking to optimize their own sites and what resources [...]

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Link Building With Articles

Published on 05 January 2009 by in Internet Marketing

There are many different ways that a link can be built.  One that is often overlooked but which can have huge rewards is writing and submitting articles.  The reason article writing and submission is arguably one of the best of the link building methods is that it not only functions as a link building exercise but also a traffic source.  Honestly, can you think of a better use of your online marketing time than a tactic that provides for traffic and which can help improve your search engine visibility?  Neither can I.

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First, let’s tackle competitive analysis. As an entrepreneur, you’re no doubt familiar with some of the conventional wisdom about how to handle competitors. Do your research. Check public records and disclosures about big name firms in your industry. Assess your goals, branding plans, and future efforts in the context of the presumptive goals of your industry rivals. Understand why customers choose competitors over your firm — both why they like your rivals and why they refuse to work with you.

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What In The World Is Net Neutrality?

Published on 22 September 2008 by in Headline News

The idea of net neutrality seems a simple one.  It is the idea that all those little 1s and 0s that float around (let’s call them web pages, downloads, videos and emails) should be treated equally and that under no circumstances should the ISPs be allowed to adjust, degrade or otherwise affect them other than to pass them to the requesting party.  Seems simple enough right?  So what’s the debate?

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What could be more important to the engines than their percentage of the paid search arena.  Does Google really care about being the dominant search engine as far as organic search goes?  Let me put this a different way, if Google was standing in front of their shareholders – would they prefer to announce that they held 80% of all worldwide searches and reported revenues of $7.8 billion dollars for the quarter OR would the rather stand up and say they hold 20% of all worldwide searches and reported revenues of $8.7 billion dollars?  Organic results drive traffic which in turn results in clicks on paid ads.  From a business standpoint that’s the only reason that organic search even matters.

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A Beginners Guide To Link Building

Published on 29 June 2008 by in Uncategorized

Link building is an essential ingredient in ranking your website highly on the major search engines.  There, now that we’ve got that brilliant grasp of the obvious out of the way let’s move on to what you can do to actually create them.  Before we launch into the nitty-gritty of link building, no beginners guide would be complete without a brief explanation as to why links are important and the different elements of them.  Being a beginners guide this won’t be an entirely complete list but it will be enough to get you going on the right path.  Understanding what you’re trying to do will help you do it better and more importantly, understanding the “why” of the situation will help you stretch your tactics outside of this and other articles on link building.

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Starting An SEO Company

Published on 04 March 2008 by in Internet Marketing

Starting an SEO company (correctly) is a lot harder than you might first think.  Let’s assume for a moment that you’re at the stage where you’re launching the company, whether that means you’ll be starting a full-scale SEO company or going it alone is up to you.  

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SEO Step One Of Ten: Keyword Research

Published on 25 February 2008 by in Uncategorized

There are two times in a site’s life when keyword research is conducted – when researching a site to rank in the organic results on the search engines and when researching keywords for a PPC campaign.  In our article today we’re going to focus on the former and save the research involved with PPC campaigns for step seven in this series.

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