Below you will find links to SEO articles written by Beanstalk's Dave Davies for SES Magazine. It was an honor to be asked to write for such an excellent publication and I look forward to doing so again in the future.

It's happened to all of us. You wake up one morning feeling like a million bucks, you stretch and if you're like me, you notice the eye-rolling as once again your significant other catches you with a toothbrush dangling from your mouth and a laptop or iPhone in front of you while you check rankings and emails. And then it happens - you start your browser with a search phrase already set to display and you notice that your site no longer holds it's previous position and the move is not in the right direction. We've all faced it and the longer you've been an SEO or website owner the more times you've seen it happen. But still ... what do you do? To quote the immortal Douglas Adams, "Don't panic."

One of the three major pillars of Search Engine Optimization is a website’s content, and onsite content optimization. All of the major search engine ranking algorithms have components that relate to the content that is contained on the website. Typically these components relate to Keyword Densities, number of words, content location, and sometimes age of content. In regards to the code that the content is contained in that falls under the topic of structure and not content, and will not be discussed in this article.

Webmasters and SEO gurus have been scratching our heads for a few weeks now trying to figure out what has been happening to Google's SERP rankings. After scouring blogs and forums for the last few days, it would seem that there is no real consensus. In fact, it seems that no one is willing to even speculate much as to what is happening. To date there has not been any official word from Google. We all know that Google does not announce their algorithm updates, much to the chagrin of webmasters everywhere.

One of the most obvious hiccups that websites have is when they link to there “Home” or “Logo” on every page they will link to www.domainexample.com/index.php. Most will ask why does that matter? We’ll lets take a look at an example here…

Do you ever think that your Privacy Policy, Help, and Contact Us pages need to have a Page Rank and distribute your oh so valuable link juice to them? We’ll if you answer is no, keep reading! If your answer is Yes, this doesn’t apply to you…