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Martech Zone provides daily articles for business, sales, and marketing professionals to research technology, discover new sales and marketing tools, and learn how to leverage platforms to drive greater business results.
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Google Cleans Up, Spammers Move to Facebook
Every media that has come and gone has died for one of two reasons, either a failure to innovate or an incapacity to control the signal-to-noise ratio. In Google’s case, the signal is really great search results on page one and the noise is the useless search results that infiltrate and contaminate those top positions. Google would not be the…
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Who Are You Sending Email To?
A friend sent me a note today about an interesting service for appending demographic, purchase and geographic information with your email list called Connection Engine. The service allows you to append hash codes to your email lists to keep your email addresses secure. You upload your hash codes (an encrypted key applied to a unique email address) to the service…
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PPC versus SEO: Spy vs. Spy
Does anyone remember the old Spy vs. Spy comics? Funny stuff! Each Spy always scheming to outdo the other. There is a similar business mindset today when companies are considering a search engine marketing strategy. Business’s immediately pick sides: Pay Per Click (PPC) versus Organic Search (SEO). The goal of a search marketing strategy is to generate leads or sales.…
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Five Business Phone Practices That Damage Your Brand
Running a small business is difficult and stressful. You are constantly wearing multiple hats, putting out fires, and trying to make every dollar stretch as far as possible. You are focusing on your website, your finances, your employees, your customers, and your brand and hoping you can make good decisions every time. Unfortunately, with all the directions small business owners…
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Oh Uh… Google Just Launches the SEA Industry
Search Engine Assassination. Have you heard about it? You will. This week, the SEO world was turned upside down when Google decided to drop JC Penney off the index because of spammy, keyword-rich backlinks found on sites other than its own to push up ranking. While the entire industry is acting shocked, most of us within the industry know that…
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Who’s Your Search Engine Marketing Villain?
It doesn’t matter how much initial education you put into a new engagement, a Search Engine Marketing Villain will pop up when you least expect it. I have identified a short list of the Villains that we seem to come across when engaging new prospects. Can you relate to any of these? Lack of Goals Don’t Tell How Much You Want…
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How To Find Ideas For Blog Posts Using Google
As you may know, blogging is a great content marketing activity and can lead to improved search engine rankings, stronger credibility, and a better social media presence. However, one of the most difficult aspects of blogging can be getting ideas. Blog ideas can come from many sources, including customer interactions, current events, and industry news. However, another great way to…
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SEO Doesn’t Stop with Your Site
From time to time, DK New Media has room in our busy schedule to assist our partner companies. We blog about some, have them on the radio show, have designed some infographics for others, and we give away software licenses (we just sent out a bunch for our social media monitoring) and even do some SEO promotion! For the holidays…
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Visits up 25% Since Redesign
We still don’t have Martech Zone exactly the way we’d like it, but the new design has been a huge success. Traffic to the site has increased over 25% with pageviews up over 30%. That doesn’t include the additional traffic that we’re experiencing from our new weekly newsletter (subscribe above). Design is consistently underrated as a means to increase traffic…
