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.
My Blog Guest has always been the excellent proof of the power of the community. Started from scratch, it has never had anything except the community to back it: our users promote it via videos, reviews, and sharing. All our features are user-invented (that's why we've been forced to sacrifice on the usability a bit as we have always been busy developing what our users are asking). Even our value proposition...
Do you love Pinterest? Does it keep you up at night, staying up late to add more images to your board? Do you find yourself spending more time there than you do on Facebook or Twitter? If so, you are like a great deal of today's social media generation. Fun, easy to use and addictive, Pinterest has changed the way we share in a world that had already been dominated by social networking communities....
Trying to keep track of backlinks is one of the most miserable elements of being a guest blogger. Relying on the blog owner not to remove, edit or cancel backlinks in posts and bylines, you often have recourse if something goes wrong. This is not due to any malicious intentions by the blog owner, but simply that you might not realize a change has occurred, and sometimes they won't, either. Over the last few years there...
Images are becoming an essential part of our content marketing strategy. Images are more engaging than text, they are easier to consume and they attract more social media shares. On top of all, images can generate tons of traffic and exposure to your site through image search engines (Google Image search is known to be able to generate lots of visitors) and social media (Pinterest is known to drive more traffic than Twitter!). With image content...
In a world dominated by men in nearly every facet of commerce, it is important for women to come together in order to showcase their skills, ideas and growing presence in what was once the old boys' club of business. With the internet still a burgeoning place offering endless opportunities to savvy social marketers, women are quickly emerging as some of the best and brightest minds behind the most popular blogs, websites and products in...
With so many new online services popping up every day, it's becoming harder and harder to monitor all your data scattered across them. The bigger your web presence is the more data you have to collect and analyze. Cyfe is an all-in-one dashboard that helps you monitor and analyze data scattered across all your online services like Google Analytics, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, WordPress, Twitter and more from one single location in real-time. It can...
Throughout the years I've been reviewing several broken link checking tools like Xenu (desktop), LinkAider (paid), Link Checker (free but quite limited) and others. While we seem to have a few alternatives to identify broken links in our pages, all of them are quite limited: No good reports (While I do love spreadsheets for many purposed, Excel is not always great for link reports. In Mac, for example, URLs clicked from Excel take quite some time...
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...
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...
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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