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Analytics & Testing
Ptengine: Heat Maps, Campaign, Conversion Tracking and Analytics
While many analytics platforms on the market are remnants of technology that’s over two decades old, newer technologies are more focused on user behavior and conversion funnel analysis. Heatmaps are a perfect means of seeing how users are interacting over time with your site’s layout, navigation and calls-to-action. Ptengine offers a collection of tools built specifically for these goals. Heat Map…
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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.…
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Advertising Technology
Vibenomics Audio Out-Of-Home Advertising: Personalized, Location-Based Music and Messaging
Prime Car Wash CEO Brent Oakley had a problem. His premium car washes were a hit, but while his customers were waiting on their car, no one was engaging them on the new products and services they had to offer. He created a platform where he could record personalized, location-based messages and music to his customers. And it worked. When…
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Analytics & Testing
How I Optimized My Featured Images For Social Media And Increased Social Traffic by 30.9%
Late last November, I decided to test out optimizing my featured images for social media to see if it would have any benefit. If you’ve been a reader or subscriber for some time, you know that I’m constantly utilizing my site for my own experiments. Designing a more compelling image that’s shared on social media adds 5 or 10 minutes…
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E-commerce and Retail
Tadpull: The E-commerce Data Pond Walkthrough
The world of eCommerce is packed to the brim with data of all different types, stemming from numerous sources. As the data multiplies and your business grows, navigating, consolidating, and interpreting it becomes increasingly difficult. Access to critical customer, inventory, and campaign data becomes necessary for further expansion and helps leaders make insightful, calculated business decisions. In today’s landscape where…
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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…
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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…
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Analytics & Testing
Keak: The First AI Agent Capable of Continuous, Automated A/B Testing and Optimization
Website optimization is essential for businesses aiming to maximize conversions and provide a superior user experience. However, testing various website elements to identify winning variations can be time-consuming, costly, and complex. That’s where Keak steps in. Keak Keak is the first AI-powered platform designed to run continuous A/B testing on your website. Unlike traditional testing tools that require manual setup…
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Content Marketing
Is Marketiphrasing a Great Strategy?
See how I did that? I took Marketing and combined it with Phrasing. Cute, huh? I’m not sure that anyone has made up a word for the marketing strategy to make up words… so I just did. The jury is still out whether or not I personally want to use this strategy (outside of this post). It seems that folks…
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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…
