I have always had clients – and the only way I found them was through their direct interest: “Do you by chance provide guest blogging services” – “Yep, I do on case-to-case basis”, was the usual answer.

Now that I am free and have started building a great and talented team, I thought I needed a page for my services, so here it is:

****Guest Blogging Services by Ann Smarty

It was an honor to be invited to contribute to Search Marketing Standard Magazine, the only (as far as I know) professional printed magazines for search and social media marketing.

I contributed an article on guest blogging and it was featured as “special report” in the Fall Issue.

If you are not subscribed to the magazine yet, you may want give it a try now!

The book is the collection of interviews from various successful people in Internet Marketing. There I was talking about getting into blogging and guest blogging. Here’s an abstract:

Tommie: Ann, seeing as you love guest posting, why is it so important to do to grow your blog?

Ann: Guest posting is almost all I do now! I’ve built my reputation through guest posting and promote my clients through guest posts as well.

I am a huge believer in the concept where providing quality content earns you respect and recognition (and everything it entails including links, traffic and money).

I have once written a case study describing how one guest post changed my whole life!

Tommie: What are some of the things that you see bloggers doing wrong in terms of blogging?

Ann: The first thing is trying to monetize it too early and getting desperate about earning money. I understand there can be different situations, but it is always wrong to expect quick money.

This always results in shifted priorities, lower-quality, and worse results. In the end, people just give up too early.
I say, get passionate and restless. Enjoy what you are doing. Find your passion and community. Learn something new every minute you are online.

Then, when you have played enough, start thinking about money.

Yes, you can’t achieve much without even trying to, but there is no magic bullet. The Internet is just like any place – to succeed, you need to work hard.

Tommie: How do you manage to find the time to operate all of your businesses and projects at the same time?

Ann: I hardly do! Like I said, my main blog is pretty much neglected and I have much more things I wish I had time for.

On top of all, I am a stay-at-home mom with a two-year-old daughter always somewhere around, so you can imagine how distracting my working atmosphere is.

But I admit, I am a control freak. I love having everything very much organized. I have plenty of to-do lists and I am very organized myself.

The book sales page is here

I’ve been recently contacted by Mark Collier who asked me to answer a few (guest blogging-related) questions for his future eBook on link building.

The eBook has been released recently and I have finally got a chance to see it in full (with my interview included). I must say I was pleased with the information shared there: the eBook actually looks like it has taken pretty much time and effort.

I paid more attention to guest blogging part and found it really in-depth and properly researched (and it was also giving much love to MyBlogGuest, so I couldn’t help liking it )

Feel free to check out the eBook:

>>>> Link Building Mastery <<<

Here’s also a free eBook called Social Media Mastery from the social media chapter of the main eBook (for you to get familiar with style).

Enjoy!

It was a great pleasure to get to know Jeff Ente better. He contacted me a few weeks ago inviting to contribute an SEO chapter to Hubspot’s Better Business Blogging Guide.

It wasn’t easy though because I had hard time explaining SEO in one chapter without keeping it too basic and providing some actionable advice (which I believe in).

Did I succeed? That’s for you to decide! You can download it here (requires quick registration).

Cheers!

So here it is nothing fancy but at least I did it!

So who is Ann Smarty?

I was very much surprised to see that email, as I never commented at that post and obviously I’d never use that anchor text.

I also noticed the comments using my Gavatar photo and keyword-stuffed links in SEJ dashboard.

So, people, if you see comments like above which seemed to be from me, that should be a spammer who used my Gavatar email ID to hijack my Gavatar. If you see something like that, please let me know.

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.

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

JustFoodStuff.com offers “reverse recipe search”: give it ingredients and it will search for recipes for you! With me it worked not so smooth – but I just loved the idea!

Image by *clairity*

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!

A sniglet is a word that should be in the dictionary but isn’t. Sniglets are the brainchild of comedian Rich Hall who, with a little help from his friends, wrote a series of books containing sniglets in the mid-eighties. While Rich Hall invented the word “sniglet” itself, sniglets are actually a long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to define things or concepts that have no “official” definitions.

Also check out this cool list of worst 100 nonexistent words of all time.