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- 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…
- Analytics & Testing
How Successful Loyalty Programs Drive Insights and Behavioral Economics
Note: This article was written by Douglas Karr from a Q&A interview with Suzi via email. Loyalty programs provide brands with an opportunity to retain their existing customers and turn them into raving fans. By definition, loyalty members are familiar with your brand, are spending money with you, and are providing you with valuable data in the process. For organizations,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Analytics & Testing
The 3 Reports Every B2B CMO Needs to Survive and Thrive
While marketing leaders may have access to thousands of data points and hundreds of reports, they may not be focused on those that are most impactful to the business.
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Interact: Create Interactive Quizzes That Increase Engagement, Capture Critical Data, And Generate More Qualified Leads
Interactive content, like quizzes, has become a popular lead-generation tool for many businesses. These interactive elements can offer a more engaging and personalized experience for users compared to static content. Interactive content generates 2x more conversions than passive content. DemandMetric Quizzes offer several benefits over static content when used for lead generation in marketing strategies, including: Higher engagement: Quizzes capture…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What is Preloading, and How Does it Impact Core Web Vitals and Your User Experience?
According to Google Search Console (GCS), one area of improvement I have on Martech Zone is improving my mobile performance as per Core Web Vitals (CWV), a set of metrics that Google uses to evaluate page performance and user experience. My site utilizes custom fonts, and I noticed that there’s quite a delay in loading the page on mobile devices…
- Analytics & Testing
TrendSpottr: Transform Social Noise Into Actionable Early Signals
Prior to social media’s prominence, there was a lawn care company that recorded all of it’s customer calls and categorized them by topic. The system turned into a sales engine because they could identify, geographically, issues that were cropping up in the region and then send highly focused emails based on the trending topics. Lawn care lovers would see the…
- Marketing Infographics
Web Accessibility Goes Well Beyond Screen Readers
One issue with the internet that’s eerily silent in the United States is the requirement for accessibility by those with disabilities. The web provides a profound opportunity to overcome these obstacles so it’s a focus that your business should begin paying attention to. In many countries, accessibility is no longer an option, it’s a legal requirement. Accessibility isn’t without challenges,…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
The Impact of Collecting and Enhancing B2B Data for Marketing
When I began my corporate journey implementing continuous improvement, one finding that was consistent with improving any process was the inefficiency – and subsequent opportunity – in the hand-off. Decades later and I find that this is even true with our agency. One example is when our clients have turnover within their ranks. When the decision-maker changes, more often than…
