Ann's Recent Posts

• 6 Tools to Create a Social Media Dashboard
  

  Social media has become a major part of an online strategy or marketing. Where the industry was once dominated by advertisements and databases, now there is a new means of sharing content via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pintrest and others. With this change has come the ability for anyone to reach viral status with the [...]

• 6+ Best Link Building Tools That Help Your Organize and Track the Mess
  

  Link building is one of the most exhausting, frustrating processes associated with online business. Whether you run a shop or a blog, you are constantly trying to use SEO tactics to promote. Which means cultivating positive relationships that will lead to viable backlinks. What if you could keep up with this necessary evil while maintaining [...]

• Building Links with Twitter: Collection of Best-Working Tips
  

  How exactly does that work; building links with Twitter? Is it even possible? Or are we talking about those t.co links instead?

  Ann Smarty explains how to get link building done with the help of Twitter.

• Clean Google Search Results of Unwanted Domains with Google Hit Hider (FireFox)
  

  While there are plenty of search engine options out there, some targeted to a niche and others more broad, Google remains the most commonly used and popular on the web. The problem is that the results offered are usually so varied and the algorithm used is so complex that it can be hard to find what you are looking for without more specific keywords.

• How To Search Twitter Users by Bio
  

  Many people don't know that there is another way you can search, and that is by searching by keywords in users' bios. Those are the paragraphs that users write about themselves in their profile pages. They can be a convenient way to find like minded individuals or Twitter accounts associated with other sites or groups.

• HOW TO: Still Use Twitter Search to Track Your Brand Mentions via RSS
  

  All feeds are still working as they had been just removed from the site after the re-design but not deactivated.

  So the only trick is to find the way to generate those Twitter search RSS feeds and use them.

• 5 Fast, Easy Ways To Make Sure Your Guest Post Is Rejected
  

  Guest blogging is a well loved method of getting fresh content on a site. Blog owners will often seek out temporary or occasional posters for  new perspective or voice, to draw in new readers, to get more free time or just to to give a boost other writers who might need a leg up. It [...]

• 2 Ways To Develop Ideas Using Your Browser Search Bar
  

  Doing SEO and blogging for many years (I know it sounds like I am very old! Well, I am not ), I know for sure that the crucial part is NOT in finding as much information as you can. The most important thing is to learn to organize and use that information. Therefore various note-taking [...]

• 3 Things You'll Have to Learn to Start Accepting Guest Articles
  

  More and more blogs open up their doors to guest contributions. Guest blogging has become a powerful way to build links and network with influencers; for the blog editors it's a great source of fresh unique content. I've been accepting guest posts for one of the largest search marketing blogs for about three years now. [...]

• Become Search Independent with These FireFox Addons
  

  As search geeks, the first thing we tend to do when landing on any website is looking for the search field. However, while the search option is considered to be one of the most important elements of any website design (as most people search first, then give the site the second chance), plenty of websites [...]