tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116511402009-11-05T17:40:04.004-05:00At Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization we know that knowledge is power. That's the reason we started this SEO blog. We know that the better informed our visitors are, the better the decisions they will make for their websites and their online businesses. We hope you enjoy your stay and find the SEO news contained within this blog useful.Dave Davies, CEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10990136068142211775noreply@blogger.comBlogger594125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11651140.post-57118509623038274132009-11-05T17:33:00.002-05:002009-11-05T17:40:04.016-05:00

Beanstalk SEO has once again been ranked among the top 10 SEO firms in a variety of fields. For the month of November we have been ranked by TopSEOs in the following categories:Top in organic optimizationTop in link buildingTop in content creationTop in SEO trainingI would like to take a moment to thank no just TopSEOs but also my excellent staff for living to a level of dedication that makes

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Our regular visitors and blog readers will remember that last year Beanstalk ran for the cure and was able to raise over $2,500 for breast cancer research. This year timing just didn't allow us to run for the cure but we were able to donate $250 to this important cause and helped Clix Marketing raise over $4,000 for this cause.A HUGE thanks to Dave Szetela and Clix for taking the reigns on this

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Beanstalk's Dave Davies (that would be me) has been invited (and accepted) an invitation to speak at Affiliate Convention in Los Angeles. The event runs December 3 and 4 at the Hyatt Regency and is completely free for all active affiliates.I'll be speaking on the topic of SEO for affiliates (a subject I know well as I got my start in SEO marketing affiliate programs :). It's going to be a great

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We've just completed part 2 of a 4 part SEO article series. Unfortunately I realized that I didn't blog the publication of part one. The irony here? The article series is on blogging and how it can help your business.The articles, written by Beanstalk's Director of Copywriting - Matt Tuens, cover:Yes Your Company Really Does Need A BlogA article on why your business needs a blog and

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Here at Beanstalk if there is one thing we pride ourselves with is being as flexible as possible for our clients, this is very different from the experience of large box stores such as Best Buy Canada. On Wednesday I received a Best Buy flyer for their store opening sale, and I found myself getting excited as I am a bit of a technophile (PC Desktop with 3 monitors, netbook, HTPC, dSLR, and so on

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Ah, the blessed Google updating - we hate to love it and vice versa. We ran our rankings again for our clients as we've seen a lot of movement lately and the latest round of results appears (for the first time in a while) to widen the gap between the Caffeine results and the live Google.com results. For some - this is a moment of joy and for others, panic. For all - it is temporary (and by

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Today is Mario's birthday. That's right - Mario first appeared on October 10, 1981 in the classic video game Donkey Kong and has since gone on to do great things such as save princesses, solve incredible puzzles, leap tall buildings, climb pyramids and keep 2 generations of youth well entertained.Happy birthday big guy.

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Today on Webmaster Radio Jim and I had the great pleasure of chatting with Eli Gooman of comScore and Linus Gregoriadis of eConsultancy about the state and future of search. Of course - we also chatted about the beta launch of Google Wave. Let's start this blog post with that. :)Google has announced the launch of Google Wave and has invited 100,000 people to test out the beta. Because we're

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Go ahead, admit it. When you wake up - if one of your major tasks for the day is link building you're likely to hit the Snooze button, pull the covers over your head and procrastinate for just a few more minutes. We all know it's important - but I don't think it's anyone's favorite task.Well to make your life easier (and maybe the link building a bit more interesting) I've found an interesting

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The lastest article by Beanstalk SEO has been published today. Written by Matt Tuens, the article outlines why your company needs a blog. It might seem pretty obvious but if you don't have one - it's a must read.I won't bbother outlining the points from the article in this post. The article is only 1031 words - a pretty easy read. Watch for the next articles from Matt where he'll be sharing

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Today Jim Hedger and I hosted Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm. Every week we have a great time covering the latest happenings in the search engine and search marketing world but today, rather than amicably discussing the issues - we battled it out over Net Neutrality.Net Neutrality is a subject that both Jim and I have enjoyed debating over the years. We first did so in front of an audience back

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I've always been one to give a thumbs up to SEO's who do good work. Well today I'm giving the thumbs up based on clever link baiting and viral marketing as opposed to SEO (thought they may be fine SEO's ... I have no idea) to Creare. They did an excellent video for the song, "The SEO Song". Very well done and my hat's off to them.So when you've got a few minutes to kill enjoy. :)

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As our regular readers may know though may not have noticed, I try very hard to avoid comments with political leanings. In our office we have staff from a full spectrum of opinion on the subject and our clients as well (most of whom reside outside of Canada and thus have a completely different political environment). Today I have to make an exception to this rule though it's not to support or

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As expected, this are fluctuations occurring in Google's results with different rankings coming in depending on the datacenter hit. it appears that they are testing out some additions to the algorithm based on Caffeine results. things should settle down by Monday or Tuesday is all goes as it generally historically does.Hang on to your hats and hope the update treats you well. :)For those of you

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For those of you who regularly visit our blog or are our client - you'll be aware that for a couple days, our toll free number was not working. It was apparently going to take up to a week to get back online but mentioning that it's actually faster to change to a new provider for telephone services got the matter dealt with in just a few hours.We whole-heartedly apologize for any inconvenience

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As a special notice to our clients and visitors that our toll free number is down. Rather than calling 877-370-9750 you'll have to call 250-370-9750 temporarily.We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Best Of The Web (my personal favorite paid directory) is offering a 20% discount on submissions to their directory and other services for the month of September.Since DMOZ has become all but useless, Best of the Web (the oldest running directory) has become the most valuable and through directory on the web. For the price of a listing (less than $240 for a lifetime listing with this discount)

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Any legitimate website owners worst nightmare is to have their website hacked or used as a platform for serving malware (spyware, trojans, keyloggers, packet sniffers, etc). Luckily not only do hacking methods evolve but so does protection and safe guys such as StopBadge and Google's website warning integration into the result set (actual message displayed under the result is "This site may harm

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Some of you out there may have heard about Google's major algorithm update called Caffeine, which can currently be tested here (they have already revised it a few times, so don't be alarmed if it is down for a few hours at some point with a maintenance message). This algorithm update is mainly related to how Google indexes websites, but as we have seen here at Beanstalk it has given even better

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As Beanstalk continues to grow we are constantly in need of talented SEO article, and content writers. What we are looking for are talent writers that can produce articles that are between 600 - 1,000 words of content. We are currently mainly looking for Tech, Law, Financial and Health article writers. Please send resumes to daryl@beanstalk-inc.com, as well as some samples. Cheers.

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It appears that things are settling down over at Google. I can't get into all the details right now as I haven't had a ton of time to analyze everything due in no small part to the fact that I'm on vacation in beautiful Whistler, BC (big thanks to Bryan from Whistler Retreats. As always - the Whistler accommodations are awesome my friend. :)be sure to check back early next week after we've had

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Well - there's a lot going on in the SEO world and as such, there's a lot going on at Beanstalk. Over the past 2 days we've published 3 articles. I won't get into the details of them all here - you can read them on our site. I'll just summarize them so you know which might interest you:Google Update - Beanstalk's Jonathan and Kyle have spent the past few days ransacking the web for information

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Has your website been swallowed by the Google SERPs? You may have noticed your page's rank (as opposed to PageRank) jumping up and down like a yo-yo without reason?There are a number of confusing theories as to the how and why. We here at Beanstalk are playing "Sherlock" trying to make sense of all this. Look for an article tomorrow regarding this SERP dance that has been making a buzz.Kyle.

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Last week on Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm I had the pleasure of chatting with some of the fine folks at Bing to discuss their new engine Bing. I got a followup email from Brendan Blandy from Waggener Edstrom (the marketing folks for Bing) with some useful links for those interested in Bing.If you care to follow Bing (and you should) then here's where to go first:Bing ToolboxBing Webmaster

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Companies who give free advice often get benefits of recognition and media attention. These days that is more often via social media the likes of blogs, stumble upon, and digg, all of which are modern forms of "word of mouth advertising". But they surpass word of mouth in that references from online social media may stick around years longer than a customers memory can recall things clearly.

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