Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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What Is The Average Click-Through Rate By SERP Rank In 2023?
Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) are the dynamic output of a search engine’s query or search term input. In a dynamic shift from traditional pagination, search engines have now adopted an infinite scroll format where users no longer browse through…
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What Is A Content Library? Your Content Marketing Strategy Is Failing Without Building Yours
Years ago, we worked with a company that had several million articles published on their site. The problem was that very few articles were read, even fewer ranked in search engines, and less than one percent had revenue attributed to…
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Format: The End-To-End Platform For Creative Professionals to Showcase, Sell, and Manage Their Business
If you’re a photographer, videographer, graphic designer, or other creative professional, the marriage of creativity and business can be quite frustrating. With an expansive array of tasks to manage, from showcasing your work to managing client relations and sales, finding…
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TextBuilder: Use GPT and AI To Find Ideas, Write, and Publish Your Content At Scale
Consumers and businesses research online to get assistance with problems or to find resources to help them solve their problems. Building a comprehensive content library is the lifeblood of being found as that resource. Bloggers, affiliate marketers, copywriters, ad experts,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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SheerID: How Brands Such as ASICS and Target are Acquiring Customers Via Identity Marketing
One of the most prominent challenges marketers face today is getting the attention of the distracted consumer. For decades, marketers have served ads and other promotions to demographics such as 18-24-year-olds. But, no one identifies with being part of an…
