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What Are Meta Descriptions? Why Are They Critical to Organic Search Engine Strategies?
Sometimes marketers can’t see the forest for the trees. As search engine optimization has gained so much attention the past decade, I’ve noticed that many marketers focus so much on rank and subsequent organic traffic, they forget the step that actually occurs in between. Search engines are absolutely critical to every business’ ability to drive users with intent to the…
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Duplicate Content Penalty: The Myth, The Reality, and My Advice
For over a decade, Google has been fighting the myth of the duplicate content penalty. Since I still continue to field questions on it, I thought it would be worth discussing here. First, let’s discuss the verbiage: What Is Duplicate Content? Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely matches other content…
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How to Optimize Your Title Tags (With Examples)
Did you know that your page can have multiple titles depending on where you want them displayed? It’s true… here are four different titles that you can have for a single page in your content management system. Title Tag – the HTML that is displayed in your browser tab and is indexed and displayed in search results.Page Title – the…
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Understanding The Challenges (And Frustrations) of HTML Email Design
If you open up a content management system to build web pages, it’s a pretty simple process. Modern web browsers support HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to strict web standards. And they’re just a handful of browsers that designers need to worry about. There are exceptions, of course… and some simple workarounds or functions specific to those browsers. Because of the…
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Appointiv: Streamline and Automate Appointment Scheduling Using Salesforce
One of the significant behavioral changes that have occurred in the buyer’s journey online is the ability to self-service. As a buyer, I want to research problems online, identify solutions, evaluate vendors, and… ultimately… get as far to the finish line as I can before ever having to contact a salesperson. Automated Appointment Scheduling We’ve all been through scheduling hell……
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B2B Content Marketing Statistics
Elite Content Marketer developed an incredibly comprehensive article on Content Marketing Stats that every business should digest. There’s not a client that we don’t incorporate content marketing as part of their overall marketing strategy. The fact is that buyers, especially business-to-business (B2B) buyers, are researching problems, solutions, and providers of solutions. The library of content that you develop should be…
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Modular Content Strategies for CMOs to Cut Down on Digital Pollution
It should shock you, maybe even piss you off, to learn that 60-70% of the content marketers create goes unused. Not only is this incredibly wasteful, it means your teams aren’t strategically publishing or distributing content, let alone personalizing that content for customer experience. The concept of modular content isn’t new – it still exists as a rather conceptual model…
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Typography Terminology: From Apex to Swash and the Gadzook In Between… Everything You Need To Know About Fonts
My main hobby growing up, when I wasn’t getting into trouble, was drawing. I even took a couple of years of drafting courses while in High School and loved it. It may explain why I often post articles on graphics, Illustrator, illustrations, and other design topics. Today, it’s typography and the design of fonts. Typography and the Letterpress If you…
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Why Data Cleansing Is Critical and How You Can Implement Data Cleanliness Processes and Solutions
Poor data quality is a rising concern for many business leaders as they fail to meet their targeted goals. The team of data analysts – that is supposed to produce reliable data insights – spend 80% of their time cleaning and preparing data, and only 20% of the time is left to do the actual analysis. This has a huge…
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Marketing Cloud: How to Create an Automation in Automation Studio to Import SMS Contacts into MobileConnect
Our firm recently implemented Salesforce Marketing Cloud for a client that had about a dozen integrations that had complex transformations and communication rulesets. At the root was a Shopify Plus base with Recharge Subscriptions, a popular and flexible solution for subscription-based e-commerce offerings. The company has an innovative mobile messaging implementation where customers could adjust their subscriptions via text message…
