How to Smartly Interlink Your Blog Content with SEO Smart Links
Interlinking your sub pages is a great way to both improve your rankings by using keyword-targeted anchor texts and also increase the crawl rate and...
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Ann Smarty is the co-founder of Smarty.Marketing, the SEO and AI visibility optimization agency, focusing on viral and Reddit marketing. Ann relies on her 20+ career in SEO to create custom search and AI visibility strategy for clients.
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How to Use “Linearize Page” Option of Web Developer Addon
I know plenty of people who use Web Developer FireFox Addon and yet don’t have the clue about the real value of some of its...
How I Tested My Website Usability with UserTesting (+ SEJ Readers’ Contest!)
You may already know that about 3 months ago I launched my newest project uniting blog owners with guest contributors – MyBlogGuest. The site is...
See Google Synonyms While You Search (FireFox)
Most of us know (and use) Google’s synonym operator [~term] What it basically does is instructs Google to include more synonyms in the search results...
Topsy Button versus Tweetmeme Button
Encouraging Tweets of the current page has become one of the most powerful ways to attract extra traffic and help viral effect. Tweetmeme button is...
3 Ways to Subscribe to Any RSS Feed with Your IM
Did you know that you could subscribe to any RSS feed with your instant messenger client? There are actually quite a few ways this can...
SEO Professional FireFox Toolbar: Tracks Yahoo! Backlinks
A few weeks ago I shared four addons to show you some website stats at a glance. Earlier I had also compared the three most...
3 Tools to Analyze the Sentiment of Your Brand Social Mentions
Sentiment analysis is something very new and immature. Sentiment analysis allows you to identify general attitudes towards your brand (or a product). The goal of...
Find Relevant Blogs (and Link Building Opportunities) with Xmarks
Xmarks is one of those FireFox plugins that I’ve been using for ages. I mentioned it in my one of the first FireFox tool overviews...
AlertRank: Google Alerts on Steroids
Update: the service is terminated on July 15. Check out this article for a related, yet rather basic tool: Filter Google Alerts with Alerts Grader...
Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators
Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs. Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited. Those...
Interview with Geno Prussakov, Outstanding Affiliate Marketing Expert
I love Twitter for putting me into contact with really outstanding people (well, since I don’t have time for conferences, Twitter is my major source...
Test and Analyze On-Page Links with LinkSidebar
LinkSidebar is a useful FireFox addon that allows to view, search and test hyperlinks in a web page. Let’s give it a test drive, shall...
7 Ways to Add Keywords to the SERP Tracker – Raven Tools
One of the most useful features of the Raven toolset is its SERP tracker (which will be reviewed in a more detail in the upcoming...
Get More Productive with ‘StayFocusd’ Google Chrome Plugin
Saying hello to all Google Chrome users out there: today’s post is right for you. I am sharing a new (fun!) productivity addon for Google...
3 Quick Ways to Test Your Website Design in FireFox
I am no web designer (I have neither time nor talent to learn web design), however for SEOs it is essential to know some basic...
3 Ways to Blog from Your Email
If you travel much and still need to keep your blog active, you will definitely find these tips useful: they will show you how to...
6 Ways to Extract All Links from the Current Page
Seeing what a web page links out to is one of the major steps of SEO diagnostics process. This way you can see which internal...
Why I Think Guest Posting Is the Least Vulnerable (Marketing) Tactic
Last week or so I was approached by Danny Wong asking me to publish his post on why he thinks link building via guest posting...
3 Gmail Search Tips You Will Be Thankful For
There’s hardly a person I know who is not using Gmail today. Finding an available Gmail username is no easier than finding a new .com...
FireLinkReport: Research On-Page Links (FireFox)
I’ve looked at a few tools allowing you to research on-page links like this post on extracting links from a page based on their placement...
Affiliate Program Comparison Made Easy
Affiliate marketing is huge; there are thousands of various products, different types of offers and terms, etc. It is almost impossible for a newbie to...
WordStream Announces Affiliate Program
We’ve mentioned Wordstream quite a few times on SEJ because we do find it useful and unique tools: they have an advanced keyword management toolset...
3 SEO-Friendly WP Plugins to Display Featured Posts
Giving your selected content more exposure via featuring it is a good idea because this way: (1) You attract more attention to your best articles...
All in One SEO Pack and Headspace2 WP Plugins: Head-to-Head Comparison
Two most popular and widely discussed SEO plugins for WordPress are All in One SEO Pack and Headspace2. Both are smart, free and usable. For...
4 FireFox Addons to Give You Website Statistics at a Glance
Sometimes we just don’t need anything fancy: we only want to be able to evaluate the web site power quickly, as we browse. Here are...
4 Ways to Track Most Dugg Images
Like Tweeted images, most “Dugg” images have been a constant stream of link baiting and viral inspiration to me. 1. DiggTop DiggTop is my favorite...
Easily Create Search Engine Optimized Websites with Eden Platform (CMS Review)
I sometimes try and review various content management systems because I need to be in the loop of what types of tools I can recommend...
3 Ways to Display Related Posts in WordPress Blog
Displaying links to previously published related posts in the bottom of each article has numerous benefits: (!) Dramatically increase click-through (people who are very interested...
Raven Tools: Enhanced Keyword Research via Wordtracker
In the last week’s post I shared how you can do keyword research using Google Adwords tool right within your Raven tools dashboard. I also...