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- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What is a Robots.txt File? Everything You Need To Write, Submit, and Recrawl a Robots File for SEO
We’ve written a comprehensive article on how search engines find, crawl, and index your websites. A foundational step in that process is the robots.txt file, the gateway for a search engine to crawl your site. Understanding how to construct a robots.txt file properly is essential in search engine optimization (SEO). This simple yet powerful tool helps webmasters control how search…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
WordPress: Remove and Redirect A YYYY/MM/DD Permalink Structure with Regex and Rank Math SEO
Simplifying your URL structure is a great way to optimize your site for a number of reasons. Long URLs are difficult to share with others, can get cut off in text editors and email editors, and complex URL folder structures can send the wrong signals to search engines on the importance of your content. YYYY/MM/DD Permalink Structure If your site…
- Marketing Tools
Coggle: Unleashing Creative and Organizational Potential With Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a visual thinking tool that draws upon the intrinsic workings of the human brain, facilitating the organization, generation, and connection of ideas in a highly intuitive and engaging manner. It is a graphical way to represent concepts and their relationships to each other and to a central idea. At its core, mind mapping is about harnessing creativity,…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Act-On: Purpose-Built, SaaS, Cloud-Based Marketing Automation
Modern marketing is digital marketing. Its broad scope spans outbound and inbound tactics, lead generation and nurturing strategies, and customer lifecycle optimization and advocacy programs. To succeed, marketers need a digital marketing solution that’s capability-rich, flexible, interoperable with other systems and tools, intuitive, easy to use, effective, and cost-efficient. Additionally, 90 percent of businesses worldwide are smaller, and so are…
- Analytics & Testing
WordPress: How To Append A UTM Campaign Querystring To External Redirects
Martech Zone is often a pass-through site where we connect our visitors with products, solutions, and services available through other sites. We don’t ever want our site utilized as a backlink farm by SEO consultants, so we’re pretty careful in the content we accept and how we redirect our visitors. Where we can’t monetize an external referring link, we avoid…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Are You Doing Instagram Marketing Wrong? Focus on Authenticity!
According to the network itself, Instagram has more than 1 billion active users at the moment, and that number will undoubtedly keep growing. More than 71% of the Americans age 18 to 29 were using Instagram in 2021. For ages 30 to 49, 48% of Americans were using Instagram. In all, over 40% of Americans state that they’re using Instagram.…
- Content Marketing
Storytelling: Seven Steps to the Perfect Story
Crafting compelling stories is an invaluable tool in sales and marketing. Stories uniquely captivate an audience, evoke emotions, and convey complex information in a relatable and memorable way. In sales, stories can transform a product or service from a commodity into a solution that addresses a customer’s needs and desires. In marketing, stories create connections, building brand loyalty and driving…
- E-commerce and Retail
3 Powerful Examples of How to use Mobile App Beacon Technology to Boost Retail Sales
Too few businesses are taking advantage of the untapped possibilities of integrating beacon technology into their apps to increase personalization and the chances of closing a sale ten-fold using proximity marketing vs traditional marketing channels. While the beacon technology revenue was 1.18 billion US dollars in 2018, it’s estimated to reach a 10.2 billion US dollars market by 2024. Global Beacon…
- Email Marketing & Automation
The History of Email and Email Design
years ago, on October 29, 1971, Raymond Tomlinson was working on ARPANET (the U.S. Government’s precursor to the publicly available Internet) and invented email. It was a pretty big deal because, up until that point, messages could only be sent and read on the same computer. This separated a user and a destination by the @ symbol. The first email…
- Marketing Tools
Password Management Is Finally Coming Of Age for Enterprise
In today’s interconnected digital environment, managing passwords securely and efficiently is essential for companies and agencies. With the advent of new tools and updates in popular operating systems, there’s no excuse for leaving your security to chance. Let’s explore the latest advancements in password management, review major password management tools, and highlight collaborative features like partner accounts that are increasingly…
