This is the most popular content on Martech Zone.
Martech Zone’s Most Popular Articles
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How to Optimize Your On-Page SEO for Periods of High Customer Activity
Whether you’re gearing up for Christmas or preparing for any other seasonal boost for sales, your website must be ready to experience greater traffic and purchase intent. With this in mind, on-page optimization for your search engine optimization (SEO) has never been more critical. Although it’s crucial to note that SEO should never be regarded as a short-term focus for…
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Visme: Elevate Your Creativity with the Free Digital Design Foundations Course
First impressions are everything—often, your brand’s first impression comes from its visual content. Whether it’s a social media post, website banner, or company presentation, the design behind your message speaks volumes about your professionalism, brand identity, and attention to detail. But what if you’re not a professional designer? What if you spend hours agonizing over fonts, colors, and layouts without…
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Do Search Engines Care If You Use Drupal?
How much do Content Management Systems (CMS), like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, play a part in search engine optimization (SEO)? Certainly bad site design (not clean urls, bad content, poor use of domain names, etc) in a CMS like Drupal is going to affect SEO (great tools used in a bad way idea). But do content management systems themselves lend to…
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The Problem With “No Comment”
For decades, no comment was a standard tactic in crisis communications. When news broke, spokespeople often believed that saying nothing was better than saying the wrong thing. In a world with a limited number of media outlets and slower news cycles, silence could be a buffer. At worst, it might leave a gap for speculation, but the circle of influence…
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Do Longer Posts Get More Views? A Data-Driven Analysis
Years ago, I analyzed Martech Zone and tried to identify whether my word count impacted the number of post views. The result was a minimal correlation, which encouraged me that the correct word count is the number of words necessary to explain your topic to your audience… and no more. Of course, this contradicts the advice of many SEO experts…
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The Most Important Skill Salespeople Need to Learn
My wife finally had a chance to replace her 8-year-old laptop, which was starting to function more like a Brother word processor from the late 80s, only not as fast. It was a Dell with 512 MB RAM, and a 80 MB RAM hard drive. It was slow, unstable, and the crank-up handle had snapped off the front. She ended…
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Social Commerce Best Practices
This holiday season some doubt was spread as to the impact of social media on e-commerce sales. Since the holiday season is dominated by discounting, I tend to disagree that social’s impact is diminished. 8thBridge has developed this infographic that reviews e-commerce platforms and how social impacts the purchasing process. 8thBridge are makers of the Graphite, a social commerce platform…
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WebSite X5: Build, Deploy and Update Sites from the Desktop
I’m a huge fan of content management systems online, but there are times when we just need to get a site up and running. Configuring the CMS, optimizing it, managing users, and then working around a clunky editor or limited template that needs customizations can slow progress to a crawl when you’ve got an urgent need to get a site…
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Localist: Publish, Manage and Promote Your Events Online
Marketers are using events more than ever, and the impact is obvious. In fact, marketers rank tradeshows and events as their second most effective tactic after the company website Events help to bring in new leads, convert interested prospects to customers, and better explain a product or service in real-time. However, many marketers struggle to not only leverage events in an…
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Diigo: The Collaborative Bookmarking Tool for Organizing and Sharing Web Content
Learners and researchers often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume of online information. Keeping track of valuable resources, organizing them effectively, and collaborating with others can be daunting. Fortunately, there is a solution that addresses these challenges head-on. Diigo Diigo is a powerful social bookmarking and annotation tool that enables users to collect, organize, and share web content easily.…
