Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Duplicate Content Penalty: The Myth, The Reality, and My Advice
For over a decade, Google has been fighting the myth of the duplicate content penalty. Since I still continue to field questions on it, I thought it would be worth discussing here. First, let’s discuss the verbiage: What Is Duplicate Content? Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely matches other content…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Understanding The Challenges (And Frustrations) of HTML Email Design
If you open up a content management system to build web pages, it’s a pretty simple process. Modern web browsers support HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to strict web standards. And they’re just a handful of browsers that designers need to worry about. There are exceptions, of course… and some simple workarounds or functions specific to those browsers. Because of the…
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Customer Data Platforms
Appointiv: Streamline and Automate Appointment Scheduling Using Salesforce
One of the significant behavioral changes that have occurred in the buyer’s journey online is the ability to self-service. As a buyer, I want to research problems online, identify solutions, evaluate vendors, and… ultimately… get as far to the finish line as I can before ever having to contact a salesperson. Automated Appointment Scheduling We’ve all been through scheduling hell……
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
B2B Content Marketing Statistics
Elite Content Marketer developed an incredibly comprehensive article on Content Marketing Stats that every business should digest. There’s not a client that we don’t incorporate content marketing as part of their overall marketing strategy. The fact is that buyers, especially business-to-business (B2B) buyers, are researching problems, solutions, and providers of solutions. The library of content that you develop should be…
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Content Marketing
Restoring Access to WordPress When Password Reset Emails Fail
Losing access to your WordPress site is stressful enough, but it’s even more frustrating when the password reset email never arrives. This is a common issue for WordPress site owners, especially on hosting environments that don’t correctly support outgoing email or when SMTP is misconfigured. Fortunately, WordPress is flexible enough to allow you to regain access using secure file access,…