Ann Smarty
@seosmarty.bsky.social
Mom 👧👧 Founder of Smarty.Marketing 🚀 Traveling 🗺 Trying to have it all! ♌️ Here to the new beginnings 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸
Content Effort: One of Google’s Signals Your SEO Agency Doesn’t Want You to Know About open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
Content Effort: One of Google’s Signals Your SEO Agency Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Is Google starting a war against AI-generated content? Yes, because it lack effort and originality.
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AEO/GEO: So How to Proactively “Earn” The Most Important Layers of AI Visibility? open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
AEO/GEO: So How to Proactively “Earn” The Most Important Layers of AI Visibility?
“Earning” AI visibility sounds cool, but not actionable... Let’s see how you can do it proactively...
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We regularly help host Reddit AMAs for clients in their branded subreddits to build trust, brand awareness, engagement, etc. etc. What we usually don't do is evaluate the success of an AMA based on revenue, because they cannot be salesy unless you want to kill all other benefits of it.
I surveyed in-house teams & business owners on their AEO/GEO strategies: Here’s what you need to know open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
I surveyed in-house teams & business owners on their AEO/GEO strategies: Here’s what you need to know
AEO/GEO industry is about 3 years old! Let’s see where we are at...
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If You Were On Reddit Just For “GEO”, Your Strategy Was Doomed From the Very Start open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
If You Were On Reddit Just For “GEO”, Your Strategy Was Doomed From the Very Start
SEO/GEO success is only possible if you are strategic about it instead of trying to take shortcuts... Reddit marketing is no exception
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Have we forgotten the lessons of Woody Harrelson’s Rampart AMA? edithistory.substack.com/p/have-we-fo... via @dflovett.bsky.social
Have we forgotten the lessons of Woody Harrelson’s Rampart AMA?
“Let’s focus on the film, people.”
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Google’s /goto URLs in Search: What Does it Mean for SEO and GEO? open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
Google’s /goto URLs in Search: What Does it Mean for SEO and GEO?
Google is gradually hiding linked URLs from organic listings. This will definitely impact our SEO data and will likely change GEO as well. Let's see what to prepare for!
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LLM Consensus: What Most AI Visibility Strategies Are Missing open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
LLM Consensus: What Most AI Visibility Strategies Are Missing
Many SEO agencies are trying to sell tactics to build LLM visibility. RUN!
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Whether you like it or not, your strategy needs to adapt to AI discovery. It starts with adapting your KPIs, but here is also a more tactical approach to start with... open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
How to Survive AI Search in 2026 & Beyond
From content tactics to KPIs, a lot must change in business SEO+GEO strategies
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The Only True SEO/GEO/Reddit Strategy: “If It Is Easy to Do, It Is Not Effective in the Long Run” open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
The Only True SEO/GEO/Reddit Strategy: “If It Is Easy to Do, It Is Not Effective in the Long Run”
Shortcuts are great if you are ready to lose everything within a few months
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@johnmu.com Hi John, I don't think there's an answer in the official documentation. Will all the URLs (even those behind "Show more" record an impression in both Search and AI Features reports in Search Console?
The First Official AI Visibility Data (Bing & Google): What Do We Do with It? open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
The First Official AI Visibility Data (Bing & Google): What Do We Do with It?
Bing and Google now provide AI visibility data. What to do with it?
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THIS is the reason why Reddit ranks and gets cited so much: According to Semrush, ✅ The word "reddit" is added to at least 9 MILLION queries Semrush knows about. ✅ This is over 100 MILLION searches a month. Reddit is Google's users' DESTINATION. It just does what their users are asking for!
So, How Do You Fix Your Reddit Reputation? (For SEO & AI Visibility) open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
So, How Do You Fix Your Reddit Reputation? (For SEO & AI Visibility)
Reddit is the most challenging channel for businesses, but for most of them it cannot be ignored because it lives crucial footprint for SEO and AI Visibility! Here's where to start!
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Checking our clients' digital PR campaigns we did 6+ months ago, they are now the top-cited sources for LLMs! ✅ Solid organic findability ✅ Strategic (and ethical) seeding on Reddit Bottom line: If you want to get cited by LLMs, invest in original research in your niche!
The majority of our Reddit marketing leads come to us asking if we can delete negative threads or sponsor positive threads and comments on their behalf. Here are the risks you are facing when trying to take shortcuts to Reddit visibility -> www.annsmarty.com/p/reddit-mar...
How should content creators adapt their #SEO strategies to align with Google's AI overviews in 2025? The key is content that can't be easily summarized! Original research, surveys, infographics, image/video-rich pages, expert tips - all helpful and unique! Thanks, @seosmarty.bsky.social!
Google Chrome’s AI Integration: AI Mode in the URL Bar + Follow-up Questions open.substack.com/pub/annsmart...
ChatGPT Using Google’s Index: SEO Is Back :))) www.annsmarty.com/p/chatgpt-us...
ChatGPT Using Google’s Index: SEO Is Back :)))
SEO is back without ever going anywhere :)
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Is it just me or is AI technology making a step back to traditional search, little by little? Anyway, SEO is alive and strong, go back to your spreadsheets :) www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatgp...
ChatGPT Using Google’s Index: SEO Is Back :)))
ChatGPT used to rely on Bing and its internal search functionality to find sources. There have been multiple tests over the past two weeks showing that ChatGPT may have silently started using Google s...
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AI-driven search is dicing queries into multiple sub-questions, nicknamed "query fan-out". It's not just about optimizing for AI snippets anymore. Details in this great post by Ann Smarty @seosmarty.bsky.social www.searchengineworld.com/fan-out-tech... #SEO #AIsearch #QueryFanOut #backlinks
Fan-Out Technique: More Than “Optimizing for AI”
LLM-based platforms generate AI answers by running several queries across their training data. If they don’t have enough confidence in an answer, they will al
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Reddit as a Getaway to Google Search (and ChatGPT): Do’s and Don’ts www.annsmarty.com/p/reddit-as-...
Reddit as a Getaway to Google Search (and ChatGPT): Do’s and Don’ts
Yes, Reddit ranks in Google. Yes, it is cited by ChatGPT and AI Mode, and yes, it is ok to ride that wave IF YOU DO IT RIGHT!
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How to Do Reddit Marketing without Making Enemies www.annsmarty.com/p/how-to-do-...
How to Do Reddit Marketing without Making Enemies
Reddit marketing is hard but so much worth it!
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Answer Optimization (spoiler: OVER-OPTIMIZATION in this case) and "chunking" in practice (spoiler: IT WORKS!) You know that AI Mode highlights the part it pulls as an answer, right? Well, here's the paragraph that made it reference a page for my query "Best local SEO experts..." Kinda stupid, no?
