Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Google Analytics Launches Data Studio (Beta)
Google Analytics has launched Data Studio, a companion to analytics for building reports and dashboards. Google Data Studio (beta) provides everything you need to turn your data into beautiful, informative reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable. Data Studio lets you create up to 5 custom reports with unlimited editing and sharing. All for free…
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How to Calculate the Lifetime Value of Your Mobile App User
We have startups, established companies, and even highly-analytics and sophisticated companies that come to us for assistance in growing their online business. Regardless of the size or sophistication, when we ask about a customer’s cost-per-acquisition (CPA) and lifetime value (LTV), we’re often met with a blank stare. Too many companies calculate budgets simplistically: With this perspective, marketing winds up going…
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Parsely: Content Publishing Analytics Done Right
If your company is investing in the development of content, you’ll find standard analytics nothing less than frustrating. Here are a few reasons… authors, categories, publication dates and tagging. There are specific questions you get asked by your company that you simply can’t answer: What content that we published this month performed the best? What author drives the most traffic…
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The 4 P’s of Modern Search Engine Optimization
The SEO world is shaking a bit at the news that Moz is cutting its staff in half. They state that they’re doubling down with a renewed focus on search. They’ve been a pioneer and essential partner in the SEO industry for years now. My outlook isn’t optimistic for the Organic Search industry, and I’m not sure it’s where Moz…
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What is Google RankBrain?
Context, intent, and natural language or all inhibitors of the simple keyword-based queries. Language isn’t easy to comprehend, so if you can begin to store patterns of speech and include contextual markers to search predictions, you can increase the accuracy of results. Google is utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to do just that What is Google RankBrain? RankBrain is an advancement…
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Lumanu: Find Influencers and Discover Influential Content
Extending the reach of your content is critical. Whether you’re attempting to grow your organic rankings by having your content referenced and linked to by high-authority sites, whether you’re attempting to expand your social reach to relevant audiences, or whether you’re trying to build authority in your industry by getting a mention from someone of influence… influencer marketing is a…
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3 Real-Time Content Localization Methods to Increase Engagement
When people think about content personalization, they think about personal data that’s incorporated into the context of an email message. It’s not about just who your prospect or customer is, it’s also about where they are. Localization is a huge opportunity to drive sales. In fact, 50% of consumers who search locally on their smartphone visit a store within a…
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How Businesses are Getting Customers with Pokémon Go
When Pokémon Go took the world by storm last year, it didn’t just get players off the couch—it got them walking through the doors of local businesses. The mobile augmented reality (AR) game, which uses real-world locations as in-game landmarks, has created unexpected opportunities for retailers, restaurants, and other brick-and-mortar shops to capture new customers. A recent survey of 500…
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The Future Isn’t Jobless and Never Has Been
The paranoia regarding the future of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation needs to stop. Every industrial and technical revolution in history opened humans to unlimited opportunities for applying their talent and creativity. Not that specific jobs don’t disappear – of course they do. But those jobs are replaced by new jobs. As I look around my office today and…
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Finally, It’s Time to Retire Your WWW
Sites like ours that have been around for a decade accumulated SEO rank on pages that have sustained incredible traffic. As with most sites, our domain was displayed and started with www. In recent years, the www has become less prominent on sites… but we kept ours because that subdomain had so much authority with search engines. Until now! Moz…
