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- E-commerce and Retail
The 6 Roadblocks to Going Global with Your Retail or E-Commerce Organization
As domestic commerce and e-commerce organizations seek to expand their reach and tap into new markets, shifting to global sales becomes an increasingly attractive prospect. However, the transition from domestic to international commerce presents a unique challenge that requires careful navigation. This article will explore the roadblocks companies may face when making this shift and highlight the role of technology…
- Analytics & Testing
10 Reasons Your Site Is Losing Organic Ranking… And What To Do
There are a number of reasons that your website may be losing its organic search visibility. Migration to a new domain – While Google offers a means for letting them know you’ve moved to a new domain via Search Console, there’s still the issue of ensuring every backlink out there resolves to a good URL on your new domain rather…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
WordPress: Eliminate replytocom Comment Spam And Search Console Issues Using .htaccess
Many inherent legacy issues with WordPress open the door to bad actors. It’s an amazing CMS, but I wish the core team would focus on correcting issues plaguing WordPress for over a decade. One such issue that continues to plague WordPress is comment SPAM. It’s so bad that I’ve disabled comments altogether here on Martech Zone. While comments are disabled…
- Marketing Tools
How Are Drones Being Utilized for Sales and Marketing?
For each roofing client that I’ve had, I encouraged them to buy a drone. I have my own to assist when we need some great photos of the properties they work on, but I encourage them to have them on every job. Today’s drones practically fly themselves, and most have incredible cameras built in with up to 4K resolution. It…
- Content Marketing
How To Build A Podcast Website For Free
Having developed, hosted, and published a few successful podcasts, I know how difficult it can be to promote and grow your audience. One critical aspect that I’d encourage every podcaster to do is to incorporate a podcast website into their strategy. There are quite a few benefits: Search Acquisition – can typically find your podcast easier than relying on them…
- Content Marketing
CleanTalk: How To Stop Form SPAM On WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, or Other Platforms
Because Martech Zone is quite popular, I get hundreds of submissions a day through the site. Most are comment spam which Akismet does a pretty good job at flagging. However, comment spam isn’t something that’s too difficult to identify or that eats up my time. The real culprit for irritating spam on my site happens via form submissions on my…
- Advertising Technology
Contextual Targeting: The Answer to Brand-Safe Ad Environments?
Today’s increasing privacy concerns, coupled with the cookie’s demise, means marketers now need to deliver more personalised campaigns, in real-time and at scale. More importantly, they need to demonstrate empathy and present their messaging in brand-safe environments. This is where the power of contextual targeting comes into play. Contextual targeting is a way to target relevant audiences using keywords and…
- Content Marketing
Not Every Piece of Content Needs to Tell a Story
Stories are everywhere, and I’m sick of it. Every social media app is trying to throw them in my face, every website is trying to lure me to their clickbait story, and now every brand wants to connect with me online emotionally. Please make it stop. Reasons Why I’m Growing Weary of Stories: Most people are terrible at telling stories.…
- Content Marketing
WP Rocket: How to Improve Your WordPress Core Web Vitals
Website speed has become increasingly critical for user experience (UX), organic search rankings (SEO), and conversions. Yet many WordPress site owners struggle to optimize performance, spending hours tweaking settings and testing different plugins. What if there was an easier way to boost your site speed dramatically with just a few clicks? WP Rocket WP Rocket is a premium WordPress caching…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Starbucks: Designing The Perfect Mobile App
On my next radio show, I’ll be discussing the Starbucks Mobile application which garnered the 2012 Mobile Marketer of the Year Award. In my opinion, it’s truly a great mobile application that bridges the marketing gap between online and in-store purchasing. Features that make the app so successful Usability – the application has a primary navigation bar across the bottom…
