Ari Herzog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Judging by an analysis of the most-visited websites during the first 11 months of 2010, in comparison to 2009, Facebook hit first place and surpassed Google. How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics. Care to guess this year’s top website? Contact Ari: Twitter | Email | 978.558.0008.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 17, 2011

When you create a blog using a free platform, such as blah.blogspot.com or blah.wordpress.com, you relinquish control. Because more people visited my WordPress blog (due to better search engine optimization tactics that Blogger prevented me from doing), I quickly approached storage and bandwidth limitations with that $10 plan.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 25, 2011

What is involved in having a successful business blog? This is a question that many companies both new and old often struggle with when deciding to start a blog. Blogging is not as easy as many think and, with all of the competition out there, it’s even harder to achieve true success. Image by Elegant Themes. Navigation.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

When I really enjoy reading a blog article and want to share it with other people, I add it to google.com/reader/shared/ariherzog. Here is a list of 10 blog articles I recently shared: 1. No topic is too simple to write on a blog, argues Laura Roeder in a guest post for David Risley.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 14, 2010

It all started on May 14, 2007 when I created a free blog located at ariwriter.blogspot.com. I started tracking blog visitors with Google Analytics in June 2008 — and I see 332,384 unique visitors have arrived since that day. I shifted from Google’s Blogger platform to WordPress in October 2008.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 22, 2013

WordPress was new to me that year, having migrated from Google’s Blogspot system a month earlier; and I wanted to display certain features on my blog. Leo is the blogger of Zen Habits. When he's not blogging, Ari works with people and brands to improve their digital marketing. I just wanted something simpler.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 17, 2020

Three months ago on this day, I resurrected my 13-year-old blog with a focus on our global landscape as humanity went to war with a germ. ” Anonymous data from Google Analytics tells me that nearly 2,400 people visited my blog. Along the way, you may see me update old blog posts with fresher content.”

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 10, 2011

The following is a guest blog article by Chris Apple. I don’t know about you, but as a real estate blogger, I tend to read a lot of blogs during my workday. Some of the blogs I read on any given day range in topics from SEO blogs , real estate blogs , social media blogs , and blogs about blogging.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 2, 2015

Everyone wants to be a blogger. I wrote the below list in 2013 and recently updated it, providing a primer for people who determine if blogging is right for them. Choose a name for your blog. Self-host your blog via WordPress.org. Forget about Blogger, Drupal, etc. Determine the blog’s focus.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 10, 2011

The following is a guest blog article by Chris Apple. I don’t know about you, but as a real estate blogger, I tend to read a lot of blogs during my workday. Some of the blogs I read on any given day range in topics from SEO blogs , real estate blogs , social media blogs , and blogs about blogging.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 23, 2012

I installed Livefyre on my blog in July 2011. Clicking it provides you a choice of sign-in options, from logging into a Livefyre account to using your Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, or OpenID accounts. When he's not blogging, Ari helps brands improve their digital media marketing. Today I bring it back. Post your comment.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 6, 2011

After nearly four years of powering this blog’s email and RSS delivery options, I’ve parted ways with Google and its free Feedburner service and embraced the paid service of Feedblitz. Wait a minute, Ari, you are paying a company to deliver blog posts to me? Have you visited the blog archive ?

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Asked to add a comment quickly on a blog such as this with the built-in WordPress commenting system, you can easily step up to the opportunity. Tough luck if you try commenting on blog with a third-party comment system. How to Enhance Your Blog Comment: Get a Gravatar. You submit your comment and voila!

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 2, 2015

He’s blogged about choosing three words for several years and a cursory review of Google hits indicate other bloggers following his lead, such as the following people and their words. Please sign up to receive blog posts by email. Click their names to read why they chose their words. Thanks for reading.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

I didn’t know Bill at that time, but because I receive email alerts every time my name or a link to my website appears somewhere indexed by Google’s search engine, I clicked over to Poynter’s website. Four days later, I read what Bill Mitchell wrote. Later in the day, I saw what Mack Collier wrote about me.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 31, 2011

Why is there an assumption that someone who writes a blog exploring social media marketing be employed? It is rare that I devote articles on my blog about me and my humanity, so please bear with the first person. I also write blog articles that explore new and emerging media. I wish I was much busier. Some people have it easy.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 7, 2010

He lives in Canada and blogs about making money online. When did you start blogging? I have been blogging since January 2009, when I started my first website on steps to create a website. Why did you decide to create a blog? You stress that webmasters and bloggers consider affiliate marketing.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I could have googled the information or called the company’s hotline but I turned to Twitter and received an answer quickly. We’re also taking this approach to avoid having several bloggers reviewing the book in a general way all at once. Click over to his blog post and you can peruse blog posts from other chapter reviewers.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 7, 2011

Experienced blog publishers recognize that popularity and traffic come over time. When you build a blog for the first time, nobody will know about its existence unless you tell them. If you send a tweet or share a link about your new blog post, wait some time and do it again. Once you tell someone, tell the person again.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Sasha Taylor reflects on a conference session he attended pitting bloggers against press officers. …it was suggested that bloggers are negative about organisations and therefore this is the reason that they are not being engaged. Related posts: Satisfying Saturday: Top 10 Uncommented Blog Posts.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Fast forward and… I am finding order on Twitter by curating lists such as this list of bloggers who I want to read. I am finding order on Google+ by sharing a lot of original content and related content by other people to continually boost my Google rank when you might search for keywords that I write about. Just because.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 17, 2011

Check related blogs. One of the easiest ways of getting targeted traffic to your blog is from other related blogs – blogs that treat issues on the same niche as you. If you are able to find blogs with high and constant targeted traffic already, that is the best, you will profit more. Use related forums.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 12, 2010

First: The following plugins only apply for self-hosted WordPress blogs. Second: Some plugins are unique to blogs like mine that run on Thesis ( affiliate link ). In December 2008, I shared 15 plugins used on this blog. Akismet protects my blog from spam. This plugin enables that love. Want to see the map ?

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 26, 2011

-- Ari Herzog thanks you for reading Inside Look at Facebook Privacy Settings on his blog. How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics. Contact Ari: Twitter | Email | 978.558.0008. Related articles you may enjoy: How Your Facebook Experience Changes Today.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 18, 2011

Pertaining to social sharing buttons that many bloggers employ somewhere adjacent to every article they write, Mitch Mitchell muses why few people click to share this article with Facebook or that article with Digg. Marcus Sheridan elaborates why 6 bloggers don’t care if you like them. But placement isn’t everything.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A special note of thanks goes out to the 1,515 people (including repeats, if you wrote your name differently) who added comments on this blog between January 1, 2010 and December 28, 2010. Kristi@Blogging Tips (71). Kristi@Blog Marke… (12). Andrew @ Blogging… (8). Dan @ SEM blog (8). Dennis Edell (78).

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