I'm in my early 50s, married, and I live and work in the Dallas, Texas area. I am an internet marketing expert and search engine optimization consultant. I used to head up the Technology & Advanced Development Department at Verizon SuperPages.com, and I've got a few patents pending from my years of work there. Later, I worked with a couple of well-known search marketing agencies, Netconcepts and later, KeyRelevance.

I am currently President & CEO of Argent Media SEO in Dallas, a search engine optimization firm.

I'm also a fine artist-painter in my free time - and I occasionally sell prints or originals.

I take photos mainly for my own reference or for fun, but if you're interested in using any for commercial projects, contact me for very reasonable licensing arrangements. If you're looking to use one of my images to illustrate a news story online, I typically would only ask that you credit me as the photographer, "Image by Silver Smith", and link that attribution from your article back to the photo's page here at Flickr or link to my website, silvery.com. Contact me via Flickrmail for permission.

I blog at Nodal Bits and write articles for Search Engine Land.