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Why I Deleted 52,000+ Tweets

Ari Herzog

It’s probably accessible in the Wayback Machine or from archived search engine crawls — but it’s erased from Twitter’s servers. (I In addition, I was receiving frequent notifications of trolls discovering old (and now irrelevant) content and sharing it. I still tweet but for different reasons.

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Stop Writing Here

Ari Herzog

It is important that online content creators know how optimize link text. They need to tell people about the link, and they need to tell search engines the relevance of the link. It’s unfortunate that many online journalists, bloggers, and website owners don’t know how to create links. I wrote about this in 2008.

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Feature Friday: How to Increase Web Traffic

Ari Herzog

Targeted traffic on the other hand refers to people who already have interest on the content of your site and will constantly visit it. Probably because you have a content that appeals to their needs and they will continue to come back as long as you retain your high quality creation efforts. Use search engines.

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The Legal Conundrum of John Deere Online

Ari Herzog

I last wrote about John Deere in February 2009 with an observation that the manufacturer of front loaders, cotton harvesters, and diesel engines did not allow children under age 18 to subscribe to their blog. Three years later, the restriction remains. If you were an attorney representing John Deere, what would you advise your client to do?

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How Commentluv Premium Promotes Your Blog

Ari Herzog

Reading is also easy, especially if the content flows smoothly and is not long. Additionally, I want to tell search engines that crawl my blog every day to see your links, and, further, contextually link up to three keywords that describe what your blog or website is about. That latter part is what search engine optimization means.

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Introducing @Flextronics to the Social Web

Ari Herzog

With 200,000 employees in 30 countries on four continents, this Fortune Global 500 firm specializes in design, engineering, and manufacturing across the supply chain and is (in)directly responsible for your enjoyment of electronica every day. Their co-founder discovered me on LinkedIn when I answered this question on a group.

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How This Blog Can Double Its Readership

Ari Herzog

Perhaps most evident is the direct correlation between blog post frequency, search engine spider indexing, and your keyword searching to discover online content to read, learn, and share.

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