Ann Smarty - SEO Consultant

Last month I was honored to be invited to contribute to personal branding magazine published by Dan Schawbel.

In my article I was sharing my experience building my personal brand which is one year old already! Here is an extract:

Starting and developing your own business is tough - you never know where you’ll be successful and where you’ll fail. My business ended up being very broad - I didn’t limit myself to SEOsmarty.com. I participated in numerous other projects that generated income and gave me more exposure. Ann Smarty has become both my business and personal name.

Unfortunately, I am not attending IM Spring Break (my daughter is only 2 months old and I can’t leave her even for a minute) but a good friend of mine really wants to go - so this post is for her!

As I am not going to the event, I can’t participate in the contest - so I am writing this post so that Aly had a pingback from me!

Hey, everyone! Let’s support SEO Aly! She has no money and REALLY wants to go to IM Spring Break. She is enthusiastic, smart and always willing to help, so you please create a post and link it to 7 Things Aly Thinks Will Happen at IM Spring Break.

Are you addicted to all-things-search? If yes, this pretty nice little start-up will amuse you: › Continue reading

Check out this awesome dictionary of sniglets - words that are not in the dictionary but should be. That’s a great source of inspiration to brainstorm new link-bait or a domain name! › Continue reading

Dooblet is a new search engine that offers to find the best alternative for anything:”car model, software name, music group, technology name, philosophy term, medicine, company, … ” › Continue reading

[Post credit: FriedBeef.com] Even if you never publish your email address online, you can still receive spam because you use this email address to sign up for various newsletters or membership-only services. One of the methods to avoid that I’ve been using so far was to keep a separate free email account for all sign-ups. But this way you can miss some important alerts from the service you have registered with. › Continue reading

For all of you wondering what clean, SEO-friendly HTML code looks like I recommend studying this pretty diagram that explains the whole thing perfectly:

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That’s what I call a fresh idea! We have seen plenty of PDF converters (that can create PDF files and eBooks from MS Word, RSS feed, etc) but this is the first time I’ve seen a tool that positions itself as a magazine creator.

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Mobile texting, micro-blogging and overall daily active typing - all that caused the boom of acronym culture. I stopped keeping track of them long ago but some of them are so funny that I just can’t help taking notice. › Continue reading

While at SEOsmarty I posted the results of my experiment with 5 second usability test, here I am looking at another usability tool: Feng-Gui that is claimed to show you the heat map of any image you submit.

Here is how the heatmap of SEOsmarty.com looks:

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