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Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty is an experienced blogger, search geek and a social media enthusiast. If you are serious about blogging, be sure to join Ann's community of guest bloggers My Blog Guest: there you will find bloggers for your site as well as guest posting opportunities to promote yourself

Ann Smarty

Guest Blogging Contest for Publishers: Get Free Content to Win $1000 (MyBlogGuest)

By Ann Smarty 01 5th, 2012 11 Comments

At the very start of 2012 MyBlogGuest.com, the free community that connects bloggers to guest authors, is proud to announce our very own guest blogging contest for publishers: ...

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Guest Blogging Answers by Ann Smarty

By Ann Smarty 10 20th, 2011 56 Comments

First of all, thanks a lot for your awesome questions about guest blogging. Guest blogging is becoming more and more popular, hence more and more misconceptions have been ...

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Is Your Guest Posting Pitch Preventing You from Getting Published?

By Ann Smarty 03 10th, 2011 21 Comments

We have seen an array of posts here on why you need to start guest blogging and how to get your post accepted. Most of them mention the ...

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How to Find “Real” Hosting Reviews

By Ann Smarty 06 25th, 2010 19 Comments

Choosing the right hosting company is an incredibly important part of having a successful website. Price and technical specs are often the only factors that people examine when ...

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3 Ways to Learn More About Your Blog Visitors

By Ann Smarty 05 17th, 2010 26 Comments

Knowing your audience is crucial. Of course you may be under impression you know enough by evaluating reaction to different content of yours: reading comments, monitoring Twitter reaction, ...

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The SEO and Usability of Page (Sub) Headings

By Ann Smarty 04 8th, 2010 31 Comments

I often see the page subheadings to be undervalued and underutilized, however they are great for making the page easier to scan as well as for encouraging visitors ...

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Why Bloggers Need to Learn Search Analytics

By Ann Smarty 02 22nd, 2010 20 Comments

Now that you are convinced that you need to know the basics of traffic analytics to better interact with your audience, the natural question to follow is how to actually do that. Well, there are quite a few very details and well-outlined bloggers’ guides to search analytics; below I am listing a couple of posts that really help (both are based on Google Analytics):

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Top 3 Ways to Find Great Guest Contributors for Your Blog

By Ann Smarty 01 22nd, 2010 35 Comments

All bloggers know that their most precious visitors are those that comment: only people who are really passionate / knowledgeable abut the topic will take time to share their opinion. Some of my best post ideas were found in my blog comments and my most valuable contacts are those who comment at my posts regularly.

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