Dave Davies

Dave Davies has been in search since 2000, so more than 25 years, across affiliate marketing, running his own company and enterprise practice. He spent 17 years co- founding and running Beanstalk Internet Marketing with Mary Davies. He is now Principal SEO Manager at CoreWeave, leading search strategy across the company and its acquired brands including Weights & Biases.

The context is worth noting. Doing search inside an AI and cloud business means working where the technical complexity is high and the discovery systems are shifting underneath you, which is a harder environment than most SEO gets practised in.

Davies has deep hands on experience in technical SEO and content strategy, and his current work reaches into Generative Engine Optimisation. He studies how generative systems interpret information, which signals govern LLM visibility, and how established practice needs to bend as behaviour changes. He also looks at the relationship between agentic AI and search, including agent observability and what autonomous systems mean for how information gets found.

Alongside the day job he has spent more than two decades writing and speaking about the industry. He contributes regularly to Search Engine Land and Search Engine Journal, has spoken at SMX Advanced and Pubcon, and co-hosts the Webcology podcast. His career runs from traditional search all the way to AI driven discovery, held together by one question: how machines find information and decide what to show you.