Ann Smarty
Ann Smarty is the brand and community manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas, founder of MyBlogU.com and co-founder of Viral Content Buzz . Ann is the regular contributor at Entrepreneur, Small Biz Trends, and other huge publications. Ann blogs about search and social media industry trends and content marketing tools. Please follow Ann on Twitter @seosmarty.
Stories By Ann Smarty
How to Optimize Your Site for Google Carousel Results
September 22, 2020
Google’s search results are becoming richer and more interactive. Here’s a guide to one of its newest and fastest developing elements – carousels.
8 Tools to Optimize Your Old Content for New Conversions
August 12, 2020
Great traffic to an article is nice but not if those visitors don’t convert and help you achieve your business goals. Walk through this five-step process and explore eight tools to help your old content deliver better results.
3 Keyword Research Trends to Get Your Content Seen
June 16, 2020
Keyword research is different from what it was even a couple of years ago. Search engines are becoming smarter and keyword research tools are getting more advanced. Here are three SEO trends reshaping the keyword research concept.
3 Types of Backlinks You Want Your Content to Get (and How to Get Them)
June 10, 2020
Let’s forget about the SEO value of backlinks for now. Let’s focus on building links that really deliver traffic to your site. Here are three ways to do that.
How to Make Your Google Mobile Search Results More Clickable
January 27, 2020
Are you neglecting a valuable way to drive more traffic from search? You are if you aren’t making your mobile search results more clickable in Google. Here’s how to change that.
How to Use Images to Increase Search Visibility and Get More Clicks
November 21, 2019
Visuals are increasingly becoming an organic search competitive advantage on Google. Follow these three tips to ensure that your site is ready and eager to deliver visuals that attract searchers and improve your click-through rate.
How to Structure Your Content to Make It Accessible
October 15, 2019
Your audience includes people with hearing, vision, cognitive, learning difficulties, or physical disabilities. Can they easily consume your content? Here are seven ways to make that happen.
7 Tools to Optimize Your Old Content for New Conversions
July 1, 2019
An article gets a lot of clicks but few-to-no conversions (opt-ins, clicks-through to your product page, etc.). What’s a content marketer to do? Take these steps to improve the in-content calls to action.
3 Tools to Energize Your Content Planning and Execution
May 28, 2019
If you love planning, you should love action even more. To create a successful content marketing program, you need to have both. Yet too few companies do both well. Here are three tools that make any content plan actionable.
Why You Shouldn't Ignore Search Intent Optimization
April 23, 2019
Too often, marketers speak about search intent from an e-commerce perspective. But where does it fit in content marketing? It’s critical if you want an audience to find your content through search.
Step-by-Step Planning for Well-Timed Content Marketing Campaigns
February 27, 2019
Timing content marketing to a special day often is a good idea. You catch the peak of the interest in a topic and amplify your content assets in a more effective way. But how do you organize and scale the process? Use these five tools.
3 Tools to Make Your Editorial Calendar More Effective
January 30, 2019
It’s no longer enough to document your planned content assets. Today’s editorial calendar must involve team collaboration and advanced analytics steps to make higher-level content management possible. Here are three tools to help.
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