Ari Herzog

article thumbnail

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.

RSS 159
article thumbnail

Got Value? Stop Using Social Media.

Ari Herzog

Impressions = the number of times a post is displayed in the news feeds of your followers and/or their friends. The shelf life of your blog post is as long as people link to it, comment on it, and search engines give it high rank. Social media posts expire very quickly. Consider Facebook, for instance.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

8 Tips for Successful Business Blogging

Ari Herzog

A good name with the right keyword or two also helps with search engine optimization, since it will be part of the title that shows in search results for your homepage. You should already have a Facebook page and Twitter feed, so include a way for your readers to follow and like you. Image by Let us Buzz.

Tips 144
article thumbnail

Looking Back at the Super Bowl

Ari Herzog

Through both broadcasted thoughts to nobody in particular and targeted replies to people I knew and random people whose tweets inspired me to reply, I updated my Twitter feed every so often. I joined them. Then, I watched the Chatter.com commercial. Around halftime, I saw an enigmatic commercial about Chatter.com.

article thumbnail

Feature Friday: How to Increase Web Traffic

Ari Herzog

Use search engines. You can either buy ads from search engines, which might be costly, or go for traditional search engine traffic generation. While thinking about generating traffic through search engines, you have to think about using keywords or must learn how they work first. Hide Facebook Profile from Search Engines.

Features 158
article thumbnail

17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog

Ari Herzog

When a search engine robot visits this blog and wants to know how different posts and pages are interconnected, a plugin creates that sitemap. Some popular plugins that other people swear by, such as for search engine optimization on a blog , are not used here because the Thesis theme (which is used here) includes that functionality.

WordPress 168
article thumbnail

23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

Feed Pauser allows me to publish a post but pause its feed publication up to 20 minutes. If you are like me and usually make typos, or don’t like how the final content is displayed, pausing feed publication is useful. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer prevents me from alerting search engines every time I update a page or post.

WordPress 123