Ari Herzog

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Hide Facebook Profile from Search Engines

Ari Herzog

I allow the global Facebook community to find me, read my personal profile updates and comment when inspired; but I disable my profile from being indexed by search engines. Connect: Twitter | Facebook | Email | 978.558.0008. How Your Facebook Experience Changes Today. Why I Don’t Hate Facebook Anymore.

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How to Identify a Twitter Spammer

Ari Herzog

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How to Spot Bad Marketing Firms on Twitter

Ari Herzog

Describing themselves as search engine optimization and web development specialists who possess “online brand and marketing expertise,&# it is curious that a British marketing company named Essential lacks basic Twitter familiarity. Be memorable. -- Thank you for reading How to Spot Bad Marketing Firms on Twitter at AriWriter.

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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 I initially joined Twitter on April 5, 2007 but I can’t link to that either because that account was deleted in 2009.). I’m a different space now.

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Got Value? Stop Using Social Media.

Ari Herzog

Metrics are worse on Twitter – with a half-life four times shorter! 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. Studied in the fall of 2013, Wisemetrics summarizes : 90% of your post’s engagement occurs within 12 hours. Media blogging'

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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. This photograph is from John Deere's Facebook page. It was taken by Colonie D. Three years later, the restriction remains.

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Unfriending Facebook Friends

Ari Herzog

Marsha and I met at a Twitter meetup about two years ago. Despite new features introduced to Facebook over the past two years, the perception of status updates has hardly changed since I wrote, “The general tone involves Facebook for chit-chat, LinkedIn for networking, and Twitter for collaboration.&#.

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