Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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What Are The Top Organic Ranking Factors For Google in 2023?
Google continues to enhance its algorithms for organic search ranking with major updates over the years. Thankfully, the latest algorithm change, the helpful content update, is hyper-focused on ranking content that’s written for and by people rather than content made primarily for search engine traffic. Unfortunately, many businesses aren’t aware of the continued updates and are hiring SEO professionals that…
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25 Proven Strategies To Increase Relevant Traffic To Your Site, Blog, Store, or Landing Page
Increase traffic… it’s a term that I hear over and over and over again. It’s not that I don’t believe in increasing traffic; it’s that often marketers are trying so hard to increase traffic that they forget to try to increase retention or conversions with the traffic they already have. Relevance is critical for every visitor to realize that their…
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Grammarly: The Best Spelling and Grammar Checker for Blogs, Articles, Emails, Mobile, and Social Media
If you’ve been a reader of Martech Zone for a while, you know I could use a lot of help in the editorial department. It’s not that I don’t care about spelling and grammar; I do. The problem is more of a chronic one. I’ve been writing and publishing our articles on the fly for years. They don’t go through…
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Product Consumption Intelligence is the Future of Behavioral Insights
Capturing the attention of today’s consumers requires knowing exactly what they want. And the creation of the new pink doesn’t happen without getting an audience pulse-check to ensure it’s effective out in the wild. Although how brands measure data has significantly changed in recent history, there has always been one missing piece to the insights puzzle—real-time, post-purchase consumption metrics. Strolling…
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App: Word Counter, Sentence Counter, and Character Counter (Removing HTML)
If you’re reading this article in our email or feed, you will need to click through to the page to use the app. Text or HTML Clean Text Count Copy Clean Text As with many of our Martech Zone Apps, I keep finding new tools that I need when I’m working with our clients. Whether it’s ensuring titles and meta descriptions…
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WordPress: Dynamically Include JavaScript or PHP Using the Post ID
One of the efforts that I’ve really been working on this year on Martech Zone is providing some simple web applications that are helpful to our visitors. There’s some basic development behind these that include both PHP and JavaScript (mostly jQuery). With WordPress, there’s not a really convenient way to write pages or posts with the specific code that you…
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How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
To a great extent, we’ve written about the impact of speed on your users’ behavior. And, of course, if there’s an impact on user behavior, there’s an impact on search engine optimization. Most people don’t realize the number of factors involved in typing in a web page and having that page load for you. Conversely, if you spend hours every…
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Bulk Email Address List Verification, Validation, and Cleansing Platforms and APIs
Email marketing is a blood sport. In the last 20 years, the only thing that’s changed with email is that good email senders continue to get punished more and more by email service providers. While ISPs and ESPs could coordinate if they wanted to, they don’t. The result is that there’s an adversarial relationship between the two. Internet Service Providers…
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How Long Should Your Blog Posts Be For Maximum SEO Impact (For Now…)?
Writing blog posts is a great way to attract new visitors to your website, boost your search engine ranking, and establish your company as an industry thought leader. But how long should your blog posts be for maximum SEO impact? In this blog post, we’ll explore the ideal length for a blog post, the factors that affect the length of…
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Mailchimp: All-In-One Site, E-Commerce, Marketing, Automation, And Email Marketing Platform
Today, Intuit Mailchimp is a formidable marketing platform and email service provider (ESP) that’s simply hard to beat. Years ago, I was running our newsletters off of Mailchimp but left the platform when my account was disabled for a spam complaint – with a list that was grown purely organically and used Mailchimp’s double opt-in. At the time, the platform…
