Ari Herzog

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Meet the Power of Blog Syndication

Ari Herzog

Media Strategy blogging metrics' I previously announced myself as a blogger on syndication links on sites including B2C and SMT. They tweeted on my behalf — and like clockwork, people retweeted them. If you were inspired, please add a comment and sign up to receive blog posts by email.

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Got Value? Stop Using Social Media.

Ari Herzog

Metrics are worse on Twitter – with a half-life four times shorter! Social media posts expire very quickly. Consider Facebook, for instance. Engagement = likes, comments, shares. Impressions = the number of times a post is displayed in the news feeds of your followers and/or their friends. 75% of its reach occurs in 110 minutes.

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Day 19 of My Facebook and Twitter Sabbatical

Ari Herzog

To those who commented 19 days ago wondering if visits to this blog would be affected, metrics speak for themselves: You can click that image to zoom. 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.

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Facebook Followers: Profiles vs Pages

Ari Herzog

I don’t need the quantitative metrics that show how many people viewed my post or how much I paid for my visibility.” He had a personal profile and encouraged his would-be fans to follow that profile and interact on public-facing wall posts. You automatically follow people you’re friends with. “For some, yes.

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30 Tips To Be a Digital Storyteller

Ari Herzog

Use Google Analytics or similar to track metrics. Create personalized pages that explain how someone can contact you, who/what you are, location/hours, disclaimers, etc. These are typically on the top navigational bar menu.) Set up a RSS subscription feed – and an email subscription feed. Let your user decide how to read your blog.

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Goodbye Feedburner, Hello Feedblitz

Ari Herzog

Response times went downhill and bloggers like me got fed up with inaccurate metrics and delayed delivery. Feedburner used to be a wonderful company with an amazing tool that had responsive customer service — until Google bought them. Social sharing can also be customized and embedded inside the emails and RSS feeds.

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23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

WordPress.com Popular Posts lets me run metrics on blog posts that are most commented, most searched, most visited, and other analytics. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator runs behind the scenes and creates a sitemaps.org -compatible layout of my blog for anyone to see how posts and pages are interconnected. A note about plugins vs other scripts.

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