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Ann Smarty

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Covers:  SEO, content marketing, link building, generative AI, AI search, search trends, google search, organic search
Co-founder of @smartyMktg, SEO, GEO/AEO, Reddit Marketing 😎 20+ years of SEO experience. I've seen it all 💪 Newsletter: annsmarty.com

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Ann Smarty’s Biography

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Ann Smarty is the co-founder of Smarty.Marketing, a boutique SEO and content marketing agency based in New York. Ann has two decades of SEO experience, ranging from website audits and link building to SEO publication editing.

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Ann Smarty’s Journalist Portfolio

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Ann Smarty

Affiliate program manager (entertainment niche) - Freelance SEO consultant (celebrity niche) - In-house SEO c…

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Ann Smarty - Articles, Businesses and Biography

Ann Smarty - Articles, Businesses and Biography

The latest articles written by Ann Smarty you'll find only on Entrepreneur.com

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Ann Smarty - Community/Branding Manager and Internet Marketing Author

Ann Smarty - Community/Branding Manager and Internet Marketing Author

Currently Ann guest posts for Internet Marketing Ninjas Blog and runs a personal blog SEOsmarty.com

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Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty

Hosting a Twitter chat is an amazing way to interact with your fans and followers, to better understand and g…

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Ann Smarty - Search Engine Journal

Ann Smarty - Search Engine Journal

I am using tools.seochat.com a lot since they have basic tools which you can direct beginners to. There are s…

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Reddit for LLM Insights and GEO Strategy

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By Ann Smarty 
| LinkedIn
We have talked a lot about Reddit for reputation management and brand awareness. But there’s one thing that is almost more important: Reddit as an analytics tool. Using UGC for keyword discovery is not exactly new, but there’s much more to it now that we optimize for extremely shortened buying journeys. Let’s see how to use Reddit for GEO! 1.
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SEO & AI (GEO / AEO) Newsletter by Ann Smarty

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By Ann Smarty 
| Substack
We have talked a lot about Reddit for reputation management and brand awareness. But there’s one thing that is almost more important: Reddit as an analytics tool. Using UGC for keyword discovery is not exactly new, but there’s much more to it now that we optimize for extremely shortened buying journeys.
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How Reddit Drives GenAI Visibility

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By Ann Smarty 
| Practical Ecommerce
Reddit’s importance to business is growing. Posts on Reddit frequently rank for branded search results and influence generative AI answers through training data and real-time queries. In 2024, Reddit agreed to share that content with OpenAI and Google. Those agreements apparently remain in place, as I’ve not seen evidence to the contrary. Regardless, info on Reddit is already part of what large language models retain about your product or brand.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I was contributor and then editor-in-chief at Search Engine Journal

How is social media changing news?

Social media make news more independent, faster and harder to verify.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

My email seosmarty@gmail.com with Twitter follow-up

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