Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Five days after logging off Facebook to spend time with family and enjoy the other side of the country, I returned to the social networking site and observed 6 private messages and 67 notifications. The messages were pithy and not time sensitive.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 26, 2016

You could have zero friends — and still see content in your news feed — because of pages you like and profiles you follow. I know that Mark Zuckerberg wants people to use the site; and for good or bad, I’m going to use it. It’s a misnomer that you need Facebook friends to be productive. Follow me today.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 29, 2012

Perusing their terms of use regarding RSS feeds, John Deere explicitly writes in the second-to-last paragraph: You certify you are legally permitted to use the RSS Services and access the RSS Content, and if you are an individual, you are over 18 years of age. Do they have a choice? Got a question? Contact Ari today!

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

My first podcast, audio interviews/explorations of Singapore combined with music, appeared on a music site run by Cosa Nostra. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

That is, my and their blog content are now syndicated and aggregated on a new online community that informs you about social media. The site is categorized around concepts ( RSS , SEO , analytics ), tools ( Twitter , StumbleUpon , iPhone ), and types ( how to’s , products ).

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Ari Herzog

MAY 12, 2011

Want to discover a whole new dimension to yourself and the way you write/publish content? If someone likes your content and/or writing style, they will research you. If you don’t own a site, you can probably skip this point. Some bloggers (not Ari) need guest content to keep them on track. 3: Advertise yourself.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The site is now lifeless and lost in the annals of the blogosphere. Search engines love to see updated, fresh content. That is, simply—start focusing attention on your site again. There’s no shortage of people looking for things to do and read on the web, so court them once again with fresh and innovative content.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 25, 2011

Ensure everything on your site is freely accessible and easy to find. I’m sure you’ve heard the overused expression, “Content is king.&#. I’m sure you’ve heard the overused expression, “Content is king.&#. Content helps increase your traffic and improve your rankings. Image by Let us Buzz. Subscriptions.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 16, 2010

See, you can create as many fancy websites that make your heart content. You can set up as many social media accounts on as many social media sites as you choose. But people might come if you ask them to come, and people might definitely come if you understand their needs so your online content can provide a solution.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 9, 2013

They began posting valuable content. Regardless of your preferred networking site, there is a group for you to join to learn and share strategies and tips in social media marketing. They did that, and they told their friends. There are over 4,500 LinkedIn members today. This is very humbling to me and I thank everyone. People joined.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 4, 2010

To be fair, I haven’t stayed off the sites completely as I’d been working for a nonprofit agency and created accounts on both social networking sites. But I’m not replying to people or sharing their content.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The thing is, she’s not a real person and the website she wants you to visit isn’t a Canon site either. Here are some more Twitter users who followed me yesterday, each with similar usernames and ratios and tweet content: Notice how some of the Twitter biographical statements reference a website link about TweetAttacks?

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 18, 2015

This tells me that as new people discover my site they are clicking around more, such as learning about me or visiting the archive. In time, I’d like to run A/B tests to determine if certain subjects of content motivate one action over another. Bounce Rate. August 1: 92.86%. August 8: 80.56%. August 15: 58.82%.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 4, 2012

Anything I send over would be written with the site’s readership in mind – as long as you’re happy with the resulting material, you’d be welcome to publish it as you see fit and the content will be owned by you entirely (in that I won’t send it to anyone else, either before or after publication.).

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 2, 2011

By logging into the site you’re also able to see which users follow you in return. Provide interesting content! By far the greatest way to gain new followers is naturally; if you provide content that people want to read and share, people will inevitably follow you. I find this the most useful Twitter tool out there.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 29, 2016

Mike Beauchamp elaborated this in 2011 : I think a major issue going forward for Facebook, and other social sites, will be finding a better way to sift out relevant posts from noise. We’re all guilty of following / friending more people than we actually care about.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 13, 2010

If you want to give your readers access to the full report, please kindly link to our site that we have put up for the study: [link] or refer directly to the report: [link]. We have been seeking out high quality websites and blogs, gauging interest in doing a giveaway with one of our sites. Kind Regards, Jason. Me: Hi there.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Never before in the history of this blog (or, at least over the past 18 months) has a week transpired without new content. We use social networking sites for different reasons, but it is crucial to grasp the WHY. She owned her world. Those are powerful words. It is common to do things because other people do them.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 4, 2012

Anything I send over would be written with the site’s readership in mind – as long as you’re happy with the resulting material, you’d be welcome to publish it as you see fit and the content will be owned by you entirely (in that I won’t send it to anyone else, either before or after publication.).

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

If the goal of a blog is for one person to post content and another person to read it, how necessary is it to stray the reader’s eyes with a page listing contact options ? I think using real names would give your company and site a lot more personality.&#. What about a different page to learn about the blogger ?

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 26, 2015

I created my Facebook account as a graduate student when the site was only available to people with.edu email addresses. My own content included. The date was Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 1:16 a.m. If pictures speak a thousand words, Instagram is where my friends who I care about share the stuff that makes me smile, like, and comment.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

If you have ever attempted to distribute a standard press release to users of social media web sites, you are likely very familiar with the problems that it suffered. If it does not have the potential to reach as many people as possible, this strong piece of content begins to rapidly decrease in value and hurts your ROI.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 10, 2011

Mike Beauchamp elaborates : I think a major issue going forward for Facebook, and other social sites, will be finding a better way to sift out relevant posts from noise. We’re all guilty of following / friending more people than we actually care about.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 22, 2010

What do you think about creating social media & marketing content by creating mashups like YouTube+Twitter or YouTube+Amazon? The problem is those are links to mashups hosted on ucubd.com, not content I can embed here. The beginning of his email: I enjoy your blog & I’m hoping to get some advice and guidance from you.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The latest occurred earlier this week when AdAge obtained a Facebook communication that the social networking site prefers paid updates over organic updates. Last year I wrote about the EdgeRank algorithm that affected 84% of your fans likers not seeing your content. New marketing materials were created at great cost.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

To the uninitiated, content doesn’t exist on its own but resides on servers that are connected to the internet and eventually can be seen on your computer or mobile device. For the past three years I hosted my site with HostGator. In the 14 years since purchasing ariherzog.com, I’ve paid several companies for web hosting.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 2, 2011

That’s right, you can now track my sticker symbol and buy and sell shares of my stock to your heart’s content. I now realize the site is more than a game. Nearly a year after its beta launch and after receiving dozens of invitations, I finally gave in and joined Empire Avenue. Was there a point beyond the aspect of fun?

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Ari Herzog

MAY 21, 2010

This new site will be designed to appeal to the highly valuable 25-49 year-old audience, and enable the Msnbc Digital Network to offer consumers another compelling site in its collection of innovative and powerful news brands. By clicking different boxes, content “magically&# appears. Glo employs a vertical scroll.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

How do you decide what content to blog about? All the content I publish on Ghostwriter Dad is made up from excerpts out of books I’ve already published, or am publishing to Kindle. Every project starts with the book, I then break the book into smaller pieces and use individual chapters and chapter fragments as blog content.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 23, 2011

If you want to read about Adam’s latest blog posts without worrying about RSS or email subscriptions, follow @TheFutureBuzz and retweet to your heart’s content. The people behind it support that too, of course, but the media brand can become even bigger than the people producing content. I think people are more.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The LinkedIn share button was released earlier today on the professional networking site’s blog. Liz Reaves Walker, a senior product manager with the company, elaborates : We know there are a lot of options for sharing content today, whether it’s on Twitter or Facebook.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Take a look: Social networking sites played a big role. How to Write Blog Content For Your Readers (or Why Metrics are So Important). With 136 current comments (and cognizant my replies are included therein), it remains a heavily-trafficked destination for people to read and share their thoughts. The traffic is global, too.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 7, 2010

And yes the website is taking SEO advantages as well, I built my site that way so that I can actually show it to my visitors that I really know what am I talking about. The links down the left sidebar of your site cover a wealth of information — from blogging to social networking to making money online.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 9, 2011

The key of course, is creating content that attracts them to your mailing list and compels them to sign up. Believe it or not, millions of people use the site to socialize. Instead of trying to plug your products or services at every opportunity, focus on generating meaningful dialogue and providing your audience with valuable content.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 5, 2010

For example, when building a fan base for a blog, one of the common ways to do so is to go out and do some blog commenting, in hopes that the blog owner will make a comment on your site in return. Scale back on reciprocation in order to maintain the same amount of time focused on providing great content.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 16, 2010

Before installing the customized JavaScript code on a site, how many people read the terms of service ? Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. I don’t have that required privacy policy on my site. We’re all using it illegally.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 19, 2010

More changes are apparently coming to the social networking site that approaches 500 million users. However, in aggregate, Facebook’s continued path of barely asking permission, constantly changing layouts, and not responding clearly to customer concerns, I felt compelled to stop supporting the site.

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