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iThemes Security Pro: The Essential WordPress Security Plugin for Self-Hosted Websites
WordPress is a popular and widely used platform for building websites, but its popularity also makes it a prime target for hackers. A colleague of mine recently told me how a client on his server installed a malicious plugin that infected every WordPress instance on his server. After he spent hours cleaning out the malware, he launched the sites and…
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How To Avoid Getting Held Hostage by Marketing and Advertising Agencies
Starting my agency was an eye-opener into how business is done… and it’s often not very pretty. I don’t want this post to be an agency-bashing post since I empathize with many agencies and the difficult decisions they have to make. When I started, I was idealistic that I didn’t want to be that agency – one of those agencies…
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Octane AI: Launch Quizzes That Drive AI-Driven Personalized Product Recommendations on Shopify
Zero-party (0p) data marketing transforms how e-commerce brands engage with customers. By collecting data directly from consumers, brands can provide personalized experiences and tailor their marketing efforts accordingly. Octane AI, a platform for interactive quizzes and data collection, is leveraging this approach to drive higher engagement and boost conversions for Shopify stores. Understanding Zero-Party Data Marketing Zero-party data marketing involves…
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Keep Track Of Your Campaigns and Build Your UTM Querystring in Google Sheets (Free Copy)
We’ve been assisting a large e-commerce client with migrating to Google Analytics 4 from Universal Analytics and improving their campaign attribution to ensure they have accurate reporting on each of the mediums and channels they’re putting to use, including influencers. The best means of doing this is to ensure every distributed link to their online store has a UTM querystring…
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WordPress: Fight Registration Bot Spam On Your Site With hCaptcha
As with many WordPress sites, Martech Zone is open to anyone registering. I don’t want to shut down open registration, as I’ve welcomed hundreds of contributors and partners to the site. However, having an open registration form on the site has invited thousands (I’m not kidding) of bots to register accounts to publish malware and spam articles. A bot that…
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How To Migrate Events From Universal Analytics To Google Analytics 4
I’m not too confident in Google Analytics 4 despite the buzz being passed by the Google Analytics team. Companies have spent millions of dollars to enhance and integrate their sites, platforms, campaigns, events, and other measurement data within Universal Analytics only to find that it doesn’t automatically work within Google Analytics 4. Events are no different… It’s disappointing that Google…