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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. I’m sure Stacie knows a lot about SEO and Essential designs great websites.

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Why I Use HZG.BZ as a Short URL

Ari Herzog

If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you will see a box of text that you can opt to edit and/or publish to your Twitter followers. In the world of Twitter where status updates have a limit of 140 characters, shortness is crucial. Besides, why give away your SEO juice and branding to a third party when you use [link] or [link].

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Introducing Social Media Informers

Ari Herzog

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

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Why Blog Taxonomies are Important

Ari Herzog

For this particular article, the category is media and the tags are blogging and SEO. Contact Ari: Twitter | Email | 978.558.0008. The blog taxonomy involves two parts; every article on this blog is attributed to a category and a tag. Clicking Google will show you every article manually tagged with that description.

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Interview with Myself: 7 Links to Inspire

Ari Herzog

Why My Twitter Train is Stopping. Should you follow someone on Twitter or should you unfollow the person? I’ve changed my Twitter tactics more than most and this April 2009 article is testament to how ingrained some people believe in its power of community. 3) My Most Controversial Article. 7) My Most Proud Article.

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8 Tips for Successful Business Blogging

Ari Herzog

Your URL should also contain a keyword or two, which is great for SEO and will help you with your rankings. Include a Facebook like button, Twitter button for retweeting, and the new Google +1 button. You should already have a Facebook page and Twitter feed, so include a way for your readers to follow and like you. Image by G.I

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Got Community? 5 Ways To Foster It On Your Blog

Ari Herzog

Guest blogging has a bunch of benefits including stuff having to do with SEO , but in my mind, it is a way to build community through variety. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube are a few of the big boys for community building. Communication fosters community. Enough said for me. People grow tired of the same thing over and over.