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Influencer Marketing: History, Evolution, and the Future
Influencer marketing has transformed how brands engage their audiences. By leveraging the voices of individuals with trust and influence, companies can authentically connect with consumers and drive action. But how did we get here? Influencer marketing isn’t as new as you might think — it’s a strategy that’s been evolving for centuries, shaped by culture, technology, and consumer behavior. What…
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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…
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hCaptcha: An Intelligent, Private CAPTCHA Alternative To Google ReCAPTCHA
If you’ve been a long-time visitor, you’ve probably noticed the significant changes I’ve made to the site. My last theme was outdated and the company disappeared that supported it so I installed a new theme and have been iterating through migrating all of the customizations. Simultaneously, I’ve also been working on improving the site’s speed to improve the visitor experience…
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Smartling: Translation Services, Collaboration, and Process Automation Software
If words drive commerce, global commerce is fueled by translation: buttons, shopping carts, and romance copy. Websites, emails, and forms must be translated into different languages for a brand to reach new audiences globally. This takes teams of people carefully managing each distribution channel for source content, and it is cost-prohibitive for teams to address each supported language. Enter Smartling, a…
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CX vs. UX: Understanding the Difference That Drives Your Digital Growth
Customer Experience (CX) and User Experience (UX) often appear intertwined because both focus on understanding and optimizing how people interact with products, services, and brands. From a sales and marketing perspective, enhancing both CX and UX builds trust and can significantly impact conversion rates, brand loyalty, and long-term profitability. Yet, essential distinctions shape how a business should improve its digital…
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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…
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Canonical URLs: A Strategic SEO Essential to Strengthen Marketing and Drive Sales
Canonical URLs are the authoritative source for online content, guiding search engines and visitors to the single, preferred webpage version. In sales and marketing, a solid canonical URL strategy ensures that your core product pages, landing pages, and content assets are attributed the right ranking power, resulting in stronger visibility and more effective promotion of your brand offerings. Table of…
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How To Optimize Your YouTube Video and Channel
We’ve continued to work on our optimization guide for our clients. While we audit and provide our clients with what’s wrong and why it’s wrong, it’s imperative that we also provide guidance on how to correct the issues. When we audit our clients, we’re always surprised at the minimal effort put into enhancing their YouTube presence and the associated information…
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Understanding and Combating Ad Fraud: A Comprehensive Guide
Ad fraud has emerged as a serious concern that undermines the efficiency and integrity of online advertising technology (Adtech). Ad fraud is a deceptive practice that disrupts the normal functioning of advertising operations, leading to substantial monetary losses for advertisers and diluting the effectiveness of ad campaigns. The global cost of ad fraud is estimated to reach $100 billion in…
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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…
