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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…
- Content Marketing
Responsive Web Design (RWD): What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Implement It
The internet has fundamentally changed the way we consume information, shop, and interact with brands. People access websites from a wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, televisions, and even smartwatches—devices of all shapes, sizes, and capabilities. The result? Websites today must adapt to various contexts to provide exceptional user experiences (UX). This is where Responsive Web Design…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Content Marketing
What is RSS? What’s a Feed? What Is Content Syndication?
While human beings can view HTML, in order for software platforms to consume content, it must be in a structured, readable format for programming languages. The format that’s the standard online is called a feed. When you publish your latest posts in blog software like WordPress, a feed is automatically published as well. Your feed address is typically found just…
- Artificial Intelligence
Customer-First E-Commerce: Smart Solutions for the One Thing You Can’t Afford To Get Wrong
The pandemic-era pivot toward e-commerce has come with shifted consumer expectations. Once a value-add, online offerings have now become a primary client touchpoint for most retail brands. And as the main funnel of customer interactions, the importance of virtual customer support is at an all time high. E-commerce customer service comes with new challenges and pressures. First, at-home customers are…
- Content Marketing
Composable: Delivering on the Personalization Promise
The promise of personalization has failed. For years we’ve been hearing about its incredible benefits, and marketers looking to capitalize on it have bought into pricey and technically complicated solutions, only to discover too late that, for most, the promise of personalization is little more than smoke and mirrors. The problem starts with how personalization has been viewed. Positioned as…
- Analytics & Testing
Subbly: Launch Your Subscription Box Service With This E-commerce Platform
One huge rage that we’re seeing in e-commerce is subscription box offerings. Subscriber boxes are an intriguing offering… from meal kits, children’s education products, to dog treats… tens of millions of consumers sign up for subscription boxes. Convenience, personalization, novelty, surprise, exclusivity, and price are all characteristics that drive subscription box sales. For creative e-commerce businesses, subscription boxes can be…
