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Advertising Technology
Google Ads Policy: Be Sure To Follow Those Rules!
Have your text ads been disapproved for editorial or trademark violations? If you did everything correctly, why are you getting yelled at by Google? AdWords never immediately informs you, too many text ads to review at one time. They have algorithms that will detect your text ad if you have violated their policy. The detection is always after the fact…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Effectively Track Your Conversions and Sales in Email Marketing
Email marketing is just as vital in leveraging conversions as it’s ever been. However, many marketers are still failing to track their performance in a meaningful way. The marketing landscape has evolved at a rapid rate in the 21st Century, but throughout the rise of social media, SEO, and content marketing, email campaigns have always remained top of the food…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Why You Should Noindex Your RSS Feed for SEO
With search engine optimization (SEO), every decision about how your site is structured and indexed can impact your rankings. One often overlooked aspect of SEO is whether to allow search engines to index your RSS feed. While RSS feeds serve an essential purpose for content distribution and syndication, they don’t always need to be indexed by search engines. Noindexing your…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
6 Examples of How Businesses Were Able to Grow During the Pandemic
At the beginning of the pandemic, many companies cut their advertising and marketing budgets due to decreases in revenue. Some businesses thought that due to mass layoffs, customers would stop spending so advertising and marketing budgets were reduced. These companies hunkered down in response to economic hardship. In addition to companies hesitating to continue or launch new advertising campaigns, television…
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Content Marketing
Working With The .htaccess File In WordPress
WordPress is a great platform made all the better by the detailed and powerful standard WordPress dashboard. You can achieve much in terms of customizing the way that your site feels and functions by simply using the tools that WordPress has made available to you as standard. There is a time in any website owner’s life when you must go…
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Artificial Intelligence
Deduplication: Best Practices For Avoiding Or Correcting Duplicate Customer Data
Duplicate data does not only reduce the accuracy of business insights, but it compromises the quality your customer experience as well. Although the consequences of duplicate data are faced by everyone – IT managers, business users, data analysts – it has the worst impact on a company’s marketing operations. As marketers represent the company’s product and service offerings in the…
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Analytics & Testing
Mastering Freemium Conversion Means Getting Serious About Product Analytics
Whether you’re talking Rollercoaster Tycoon or Dropbox, freemium offerings continue to be a common way to attract new users to consumer and enterprise software products alike. Once onboarded to the free platform, some users will eventually convert to paid plans, while many more will stay in the free tier, content with whichever features they can access. Research on the topics of freemium conversion and…