No, You Are NOT Allowed to Use Any Flickr Images

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The common delusion (under which I’ve also been for some time) is that you can use any image you find at Flickr as long as you link back to it. Well, this is wrong. Let’s try to figure all Flickr image license types to see which images you are allowed to post at your sites and blogs.

You are only allowed to use (not all) images under Creative Commons with appropriate license: Read on: No, You Are NOT Allowed to Use Any Flickr Images

SEO Ethics, Website Design | 4 Comments » | 2009-01-04

WhosTalkin.com - a New Reputation Management Tool

A really cool reputation management tool WhosTalkin.com has been launched fro public usage this week. The tool is free, requires no registration and offers plenty of options to play with: Read on: WhosTalkin.com - a New Reputation Management Tool

Reputation Management | 5 Comments » | 2009-01-01

SEO Smarty Is Back!!!

Ok, my blog is back! I have to apologize for being so dumb that the hosting transfer took me about a week! But please bare with me: I have reasons (well, one reason to be precise) to be busy and overwhelmed and… Alright, I guess that’s enough for excuses - I just mean to say I am sorry and I am so excited to see my blog back!

Happy Holidays to all of you!!! This has been an exciting year for me! It deserves to end with a huge party.

Image credits: I’m so happy!

SEO Ethics | 10 Comments » | 2008-12-20

The 7 Reasons Every Blogger Should Be Guest Posting

(photo by insunlight)

New Audience: Guest posting will open up your blog to a new audience that may not have previously read your work. As long as you write something that catches their interest, they will curiously click through to your blog to see what else you have to offer.

More RSS Subscribers: Once they click through to your blog, if visitors find information that is either informative, entertaining and/or useful, they will most likely subscribe to your RSS feed to see what you are going to publish in the future. Keep in mind that in order to draw visitors (and potential RSS subscribers) to your blog, you need to write an amazing guest post that piques their interest. Read on: The 7 Reasons Every Blogger Should Be Guest Posting

Blogging, Branding | 19 Comments » | 2008-12-11

Ann Smarty Becomes An SEO Mom :)

Ok, I now can make public what I’ve been keeping secret for 9 months! On November, 23 I gave birth to a tiny girl - my first baby!

I am Slavic and hence superstitious, so I won’t tell you much, neither will I make her photos public so far.

I will have to slow down on most of my projects and be less active in social media in the nearest future, so please everyone who failed to receive an email from me - bear with me. I’ll do my best to learn to combine my professional and mommy’s lives effectively - but I need time.

Blogging | 79 Comments » | 2008-11-26

Internet Marketing Top Blogs - WinningTheWeb

WinningTheWeb shook the Internet Marketing world by announcing the launch of the ultimate list of Internet marketing blogs. Now you will know where to refer to once you want to refine your RSS subscription list! Site categories include affiliate marketing, blogging, copywriting, Internet marketing, link building, make money online, SEO / SEM, and social media. Read on: Internet Marketing Top Blogs - WinningTheWeb

SEO Tools | 16 Comments » | 2008-11-13

New Study by Reliable-SEO: Google Personalized Search

Personalized search is one of the controversial Google’s babies: first, it might sound great that you are supposed to be given just what you want (on the other hand, it is still questionable the machine can know better what I am up to); secondly, personalized search has become the real headache for SEOs: ranking fluctuations pose many problems for reporting and overall work evaluations.

Reliable SEO has recently released a report summering the results of the personalized search research involving data provided by volunteers (USA only). Read on: New Study by Reliable-SEO: Google Personalized Search

Search Engines | 8 Comments » | 2008-10-31