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Ann Smarty | My Blog Guest | @seosmarty

Ann Smarty is the blogger and marketer specializing in SEO consulting and guest blogging. Ann's expertise in blogging and tools serve as a base for her writing, tutorials and her guest blogging project, MyBlogGuest.com

#1 Guest Blogging Incentive: Backlinks (Guidelines and Ethics)

Accepting guest posts is an effective way to freshen up your blog, share various perspectives and build a stronger community (especially if you manage such a multi-author, multi-topic resource as SEJ). Naturally, if you want to get the maximum benefit from guest blogging, you will need to give back. This post is about the most popular (yet, NOT the most important) benefit of guest blogging: linking: best practices and ethics of linking back to your...

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Using Excel for SEO – the Grand Collection of Tips

You probably know that I am a big Excel fanatic (though not an expert). To me, Excel has always been the ultimate SEO, guest blogging and productivity tool. I've been collecting Excel tutorials for years and this post lists the most useful (yet, the least geeky) of them: no matter which SEO task you have come across, chances are you'll find one of the following tutorials handy: 1. Export Any Data to Excel Any well-known keyword...

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Interview with Andrew Kardon, Co-Owner of JoeShopping.com

We continue our (hopefully inspiring and motivational) series featuring successful self-made entrepreneurs. The first interview was with Kyle James, founder of Rather-Be-Shopping. And today we are interviewing Andrew Kardon, co-founder and co-owner of JoeShopping.com, an innovative free shopping tool. 1. Please tell us a few words about yourself: what's going on in your life? Well, on the personal side, I'm happily married to my college sweetheart. I have two young sons who...

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HOW TO: Use Wildcard Search with Various Google Services

I confess, I love Google advanced search operators and playing with search results. Often, to struggle the burnout or lack of inspiration, all I need to do is to search Google. And my favorite operator is wildcard because it is able to give you most unexpected and creative results. Here's how you can play with it in various Google services: General Google Search + Wildcard General Google search allows a lot of flexibility with its wildcard operator. How...

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Interview: Kyle James, Owner of Rather Be Shopping

I couple of weeks ago I felt so inspired by a few successful entrepreneuship stories that I shared them as a guest post 5 Hugely Successful Self-Made Web Entrepreneurs to Get Inspired. I am now lucky enough to feature one of those entrepreneurs here: Kyle James. Enjoy! 1. Kyle, please tell us a few words about yourself. What has brought you into affiliate marketing? I live in northern California, have 3 young children, and...

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Integrate Your Blog, Facebook Page and Group with WPBook

If you’re like me, you have a difficult time deciding which to focus your efforts on - a Facebook page or a Facebook group. I have found groups (especially new ones) work much better for interaction, whereas Facebook pages are easier to market. Hence my solution: I use pages to build a fan base and groups for open discussions on related matters. However, trying to maintain both can be tough, and I’ve found integrating my blog...

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Advanced SEO Book: How To Learn SEO the Right Way

It's true that a lot has been said and written about SEO by now. Experts choose different styles and different ways to put it: some choose to share strategic advice while others (like me) are better at outlining simply DIY SEO tactics and tips. It is not hard to find well-structured information on the right way to do things: how to do keyword research, craft your web copy, structure your website architecture and interlink parts of...

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Interview with Fraser Cain, Co-Founder of Keyword Strategy

Today we’re featuring all-around-amazing person, Fraser Cain, editor of Universe Today, a hugely popular astronomy blog, and co-founder of one of the best keyword management tools: Keyword Strategy. I hope you'll find the interview as useful as I did: 1. What brought you to search marketing? And could you please tell our readers a few words about yourself? I had always been interested in astronomy and journalism, and so I ...

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3 Ways to Find Tweets Around Any Domain

I have once shared a few ways to check Twitter comments about any page but what if we need to keep an eye on all Tweets around some domain? All the three tools listed here have three things in common: (1) They will list all the aggregated Twitter updates related to the domain (home page + all Tweeted subpages);
(2) They support multiple URL shorteners;
(3) They allow for some ways to subscribe...

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3 Ideas for Quick and Useful Blog Posts for the Summer

We work hard during the year, so come summer we naturally deserve some much needed rest and relaxation. However, how can we enjoy our vacation knowing that nothing is being published on our blogs and readers are slowly abandoning our sites? Fear no more! Here are 3 ideas for creating quick and useful posts to update your blog while still enjoying your decompression time: 1. Invite Guest Bloggers Guest blogging is the easiest way to score instant,...

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