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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 Quickly Sign-Up for Any Services : Spam Free
Both link building and blogging involve signing up daily for various services, for example: register to use some free online tools or get access to...
An Interview with Steve Plunkett: SEO Experimentation Done Right
Steve Plunkett is a well known for his SEO insights. You can follow him on Twitter or view his online resume at LinkedIn. And now...
Greasemonkey Scripts for Social Media Marketers
I have already listed Greasemonkey scripts for Google search and for SEOs. This time I am reviewing a few scripts that social media marketers will...
Visual Thesaurus Mind-Maps Your Keywords
I’ve always believed that an SEO consultant should be a good linguist. Keyword research shouldn’t just include keyword suggestion tools and competitive analysis. Keyword research...
Collection of Greasemonkey Scripts for SEOs
Last week I listed some cool Greasemonkey scripts for Google search. This week I am following up with some great scripts SEOs will be interested...
SEO & the Value of User-Generated Dictionaries
I have already blogged on using dictionaries for keyword research. Most of the online resources mentioned in that post are based on traditional English dictionaries...
14 Essential Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Search
Greasemonkey is an addon for Firefox allowing users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages. To use the scripts you...
Track Google SERPs for Reputation Management and Rankings Monitoring
I’ve been looking at a few rank checking and monitoring tools previously. This time I am going to share a few ways to monitor the...
Organize Your Keywords with WikidPad
I am a strong believer that a successful keyword strategy is tightly connected to an effective keyword organizing. When you are playing with your keyword...
Free Spider Simulation Tools to Evaluate a Web Page
I did a short post previously listing a few tools that allow to get a better understanding on how Google views the page content. Today...
10 SEO Bookmarklets to Analyze Page Links and Images
Here is the third part of my SEO bookmarklets collection. If you missed the first two, be sure to check them out: Google bookmarklets and...
Best Robots.txt Tools: Generators and Analyzers
While I do not encourage anyone to rely too much on Robots.txt tools (you should either make your best to understand the syntax yourself or...
Keyword Typo Suggestion Tools and Generators
Keyword typo suggestion tools and generators may find a much wider sphere of usage than they are traditionally supposed to: [most important] they can be...
5 Internet Marketing Services to Host and Promote Your Profile
If you are a serious Internet marketer, you should take care of your online reputation management. There are a few places where you should host...
These Fun Keyword Tools Will Answer All Your Questions
It’s exciting to discover more and more keyword tools and brainstorm how far you can go with your keyword research. Let’s look at my recent...
Link Building and Blog Pitching Euphemisms
Today with blog pitching for link building and awareness you just can’t say straight what you are actually up to: a link back to your...
4 Tools Visualizing Domain Backlinks
There are quite a few good Yahoo-based (and a couple of independent) backlink checking tools (both web-based and desk-top) that are great for investigating, organizing...
TubeMogul : Distribute Your Video to Multiple Sites
Video is a great way to build links and manage reputation. A creative video will generate links on ts own (like any kind of good...
How Much Does Semantic HTML Structure Matter for SEO?
I’ve been posting on the page semantic HTML markup several times previously: Here are a few tools to quickly analyze any page semantic HTML structure;...
FireFox Addons to Explore Backlinks in Google Webmaster Tools
Google does allow us to have a sneak peek on which links it is aware of. This data is private and can be accessed only...
Link Building Reports That Make Your Client Happy
To properly organize yourself and your work and to make your clients happy, you should definitely have your own backlink reporting system. Of course, the...
5+ Ways to SEO Your FireFox Status Bar
If you are an active FireFox user, chances are you have very little space left in the upper part of your browser window. Remember what...
3 Tools to Unite Multiple Search Engines
My search activity is not only limited to Google, of course. I search multiple (vertical) resources daily (there are at least 20 of them I...
What is Google Query Expansion? Cases and Examples
Let’s face it, Google knows better what you want to search and find. Their search suggestions, related queries and query expansion are three major ways...
3 Awesome Wikipedia Tools and How They Can Be Useful
Love it or hate it, Wikipedia is a widely used, vigorously discussed and actively updated reference resource. The “usefulness” of the tools listed below is...
5 Tools for On-page Image Usage Analysis
Image optimization is both vital for “search engine friendliness” and web accessibility. Let’s look at a few top tools that can help you analyze both...
AideRSS: What’s the PostRank of Your Blog Posts?
AideRSS is a very handy blog evaluating tool that can help you understand and grade your blog posts. The service grades all your blog posts...
How Define: Operator Works and How To Get Included in Google Definitions
Google define:keyword (no space) advanced operator is a very handy (yet not very widely used) way to quickly find the word meaning. However the algorithm...
SEOmoz Linkscape : New Backlink Checking Tool Reviewed
Last week SEOmoz announced the launch of their new backlink checking tool Linkscape and I felt I couldn’t help (briefly) reviewing it at our (already...