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Beanstalk has just released their latest press release announcing discounted prices from July 21 through to July 25, 2008 on all services. The press release is as follows:

Beanstalk Offers Reduced Rates On SEO Services Until July 25

Top SEO company Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. is offering up to 20% off their SEO services. This is offered to fill an otherwise slow period as well as to remind online merchants that now is the time to prepare for the winter holiday season if you’re hoping for organic rankings.

Victoria, BC July 21, 2008 – Calling it their "Christmas In July Sale” Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. is offering up to 20% off on their optimization and link building services.

The discount will be applied to all services. Their guaranteed SEO services will be reduced by 10% and their non-guaranteed services such as link building, consulting, paid reviews and training will be reduced by 20%.

“We all know that summer is slow,” started CEO Dave Davies when asked why they’re dropping their rates now, “and if we’ve got staff sitting idle then we might as well let a few clients benefit with some reduced rates. It’s a bit like an airline dropping their prices to fill seats – we’ve got the staff, we’ve got the resources, we might as well let a few people get on at a reduced rate than let the resources go to waste.”

“It’s also a good time to plant in people’s minds the notion that it’s time now to prepare for rankings during the winter holidays. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been called in mid-October from someone who wanted to rank for the holiday season. PPC is great for that but if you want to rank organically for the holidays – this is about as late as you can start and even now might be pushing it if you’ve got a brand new site”.

When asked why this is Dave replied, “That’s a full lesson unto itself but let’s just say that for anything but the lowest competition phrases – just the link building alone and the time it takes for the links to get picked up is longer than a couple months. If you want rankings six months from now, you need to start today or, better yet – three or four months ago. This isn’t the case every time of course but it is often enough. If you want to rank for the winter holidays and you haven’t started yet – you need to do so now. You don’t have to choose us, you can even do it yourself – but you need to get started one way or the other.”

And so inspired their, “Christmas In July Sale”.

Contact them today at 877-370-9750 or visit them online at www.beanstalkseo.com for more details.

About Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc.

Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. is a leading SEO company. Located in Victoria, BC, Canada Beanstalk offers guaranteed SEO services, consulting, training and link building. They are a leader in organic search engine optimization and link building services.

From July 21 until the 25 they will be offering significantly reduced rates on their services.

Contact

Daryl Quenet, Director of SEO Services
Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc.
http://www.beanstalk-inc.com/
877-370-9750

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Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz takes some time to explain PageRank as it was when it first came about vs how it is today. Admittedly, it's greatly simplified in this video BUT it's probably the most easy-to-understand explanation I've heard to date and covers the changes in the system well. For those of us watch the PageRank on our homepage and internal pages it we've likely witnessed a lot of what he's taking about.

To candy-coat it even more, Rand covered the explanation as part of his Whiteboard Friday series so you don't even have to read. :) Here's the video:

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday-Has Pagerank Changed? (visit for the comments) from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

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Inspired by a combination of an excellent research paper from Richard Stokes of AdGooroo, Google's Q2 earnings report and the recent happenings in the now getting tiring story of Yahoo! and Microsoft - the most recent article by Beanstalk's Dave Davies is out today. Titled, "The Search Landscape Reflected In Paid Results" it discussed some of the recent changes, how they're affecting the search engines themselves and what we can expect to see in the paid and organic results because of this.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Labels: adsense, adwords, google, msn, ppc, seo article, yahoo

Beanstalk has changed it's name. A slight change but a change nonetheless - Beanstalk is now formally known as Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. as opposed to Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning, Inc. Here is the press release that has gone out with this announcement:

Top Search Engine Optimization Firm Changes Its Name

Top SEO company Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning, Inc. has formally changed it's name to Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. This change reflects adjustments in the popularity of specific terms used to identify the industry itself.

Victoria, BC July 15, 2008 -- In an effort to further enhance their brand identity, Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning, Inc. has formally changed its name to Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. As business owners have become more educated and familiar with the search engine marketing industry the terminology used to describe it has become more specific. Beanstalk has changed their name to reflect this adjustment in visitor behavior.

"The world of online marketing is changing," says Beanstalk, CEO Dave Davies, "and we have to change with it. When the company was first founded back in 2004 - the terms used to describe the services we offer were varied. As the industry has evolved and consumers better informed and educated the terms used have become more solidified. A name reflects who you are - and our name needs to reflect what consumers identify with in our industry."

When asked about the name change in relation to the optimization of their own site Dave chuckled, "Of course we can't ignore the effects of having the ability to more easily work on some of the top keywords in our industry. That said, we already rank very well for "seo services" which is and will continue to be our primary focus. In this case, the ability to target new, more highly searched phrases than "search engine positioning" is an added bonus but not our primary motivation. Branding is the key in our current marketing efforts and associating our company with some of the top words used to describe our industry is a big part of that effort."

The change is now reflected across the Beanstalk site, "with the exception being our SEO blog", Dave points out. "If we wrote as Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning, Inc. in a post two years ago then it will remain that way in that post. All new posts will of course reflect the new name."

The change will not affect clients or the services offered by Beanstalk. They will continue to offer guaranteed SEO services to their clients as well as consulting, training and link building. Sticking with their long-held beliefs, they will not be expanding services into other search engine marketing areas such as pay-per-click. "It has been and hopefully continues to be clear from our name," begins Dave when asked about adding new services, "that what we do is organic search engine optimization. The search marketing industry is a huge one and I personally believe that our clients are better served if we provide excellence in our area and refer them to others for other areas. When we have clients who want pay-per-click or social media marketing we send them to firms that specialize in just that. That always has been and will continue to be our philosophy so no, we won't be adding in any new services. Heck, there's enough going on in the organic realm to keep 10 of me busy - I'll leave paid search or social media to those who love it as much as I love the organic side rather than be second best (or worse) at all of them."

About Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc.

Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. is a leading SEO company. Located in Victoria, BC, Canada Beanstalk offers it's services worldwide with the majority of it's client base located in the continental United States.

Dave Davies is the CEO of Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. Dave co-authored the second version of the Search Engine Marketing Kit for SitePoint.com, is the co-host of a weekly radio show on Search Engine Optimization on WebmasterRadio.fm and has spoken at numerous conferences on a variety of subjects related to organic search engine optimization.

Contact

Dave Davies, CEO
Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc.
http://www.beanstalk-inc.com/
250-370-9750

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Google Keywords

Google has just started showing the estimated monthly search numbers in their keyword suggestion tool. For the first time in a long while we're now able to see the estimated search numbers on the engine who's results we most want to see the results of.

As a word of warning, after using it and comparing the numbers with the click through volume for a number of phrases, the number appear to be a bit high - that's because it defaults to Broad Match but you can select Exact Match from the drop-down and get the the numbers you're looking for.

You'll find this new feature added to the Google tool here.

A Test Of Links

Also, there was an interesting test run by Johannes Beusand published on the MarketingFan.com site regarding the value of multiple links to a single page on residing on a single page of a website. He basically strives to answer the question, if there are two or more links on a single page of a site and they point to a single page on another site - how are they treated?

I'm not going to be mean and note everything from the site here and steal their traffic. :) You'll find the link to this interesting test here.

Webmaster Radio

And today on Webmaster Radio Jim Hedger and I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Ryan - the man behind SES. Kevin discussed the show, the organizing of it, and some of the great sessions that'll be held in San Jose.

After that (and some ranting by both Jim and myself about the stupid fees we Canadians are charged for cell phones and specifically web usage on them) we had on Dave Szetela from Clix Marketing discussing the recent changes Google has made to the quality scores for it's AdWords advertisers.

Again, I could repeat the discussion but it was based on a couple posts covered elsewhere here and here.

Labels: adwords, google, jim hedger, keyword activity tool, link building, webmaster radio

Well, the story continues. Back in April we reported on the attempt to trademark the term "SEO" by one Mr. Jason Gambert. If you're interested in the story, Jim Hedger and I also reported on the story on Webmaster Radio with our guest Sarah Bird from SEOmoz. You can listen to the podcast here.

Well the story gets even worse.

Jason has now been busted trying to manipulate Wikipedia to back his claims. He's now been banned from editing Wikipedia at all. and this is the guy that's wanting to trademark SEO just for the good of the community.

I won't bother repeating the story I read to find out this info. You can read the details about what's going on now the arteworks.biz site and you can also review the back-and-forths between Wikipedia admins and Jason here.

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While we may be tucked away up here in Canada, the staff of Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. would like to wish our American friends and clients (and especially those of you who fall into both categories) a very happy July 4th long weekend.

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