Ann Smarty

Keyword research is one of the major cornerstones of marketing success for any local business targeting greater visibility in the local search results.  If you’re looking for ways to boost ...

Would you like to take your local business to a new level? Launching a solid, well-planned local link building and PR outreach strategy is an effective way to generate traffic, ...

The key to executing excellent seasonal content campaigns for a local audience is preparation. Follow contributor Ann Smarty’s advice, use these handy tools, and never again will you be creating ...

Question-based queries help guide your content strategy and dominate Google’s featured snippet top spot, so it’s important to have a full understanding of what your customers and prospective customers are asking. Ann ...

Looking for more large-scale ways to generate leads through your content? Here, contributor Ann Smarty takes us through her seven must-have tools, from research to content creation, for better lead-gen ...

Local businesses are starting to wise up: The Internet may give you more reach, but that doesn’t mean you should just focus on expansion. The real boon to small-to-medium sized ...