Ari Herzog

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Content vs Content: A November Wish

Ari Herzog

In the first instance, the accent is on the first syllable and refers to substance and space. In the second instance, the accent is on the second syllable and refers to gratification and affect. Look at that word content. Mass media (and social media particularly) force-feeds us the first instance of content every day.

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Clean Your Social Connections

Ari Herzog

You refer to subjective culling. If you don’t trust a person in your social network, why are you connected? If you don’t respect, like, or (gasp!) know the person, why are you connected? I’m partially to blame. Comments LinkedIn is the last network I have to go through. by Kristi In reply to Ari Herzog.

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10 Twitter Tips to Make Friends

Ari Herzog

I chose to reference my degree and my employer to try and add a little gravity to my account, as affiliations with respected organizations are an easy way to enhance your online persona. Pay attention to the top Twitter users. How can you emulate what they do? Tweet well and tweet often but not too often. Follow everyone who follows you.

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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. Traffic is the reason a seller will make sells, it is the reason you will get subscribers and it stands at the center of internet business and money making. Why will they return often?

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23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

WP Ban simplifies the amount of time it takes me to weed through comments Akismet treats as spam, by banning anyone by IP address, host name, user agent, or referer URL. 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.

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17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog

Ari Herzog

Simple Trackback Validation is gobbledygook that reduces spam trackbacks by confirming the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the address of the web server the URL is referring, and then checking the remote web page and ensuring that page has a link to this blog.

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Why You Should Clean Your Social Connections

Ari Herzog

How can I refer the other person to you when I don’t keep in touch with that person? by Danny Brown You refer to subjective culling. I refer to objective. If you don’t trust the person in your network, why are you connected? If you don’t respect, like, or (gasp!) know the person, how can you trust?