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- Content Marketing
How To Block Legitimate And Illegitimate Bots from Crawling and Scraping Your Site
Martech Zone continues to grow in popularity over recent weeks… and with it it’s also becoming a popular site for hackers and bots. Last week, my hosting company alerted me to my site being hammered with what almost appeared to be a DDoS attack, but it was coming from a user agent called claudbot. It was hitting my site so…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Understanding DMARC: The Evolution of Email Authentication and Its Role in Preventing Spoofing
Email remains one of the most critical and widely exploited communication tools in the digital world. Despite numerous advances in security, one of the persistent challenges has been email spoofing—when a malicious actor sends emails with forged sender addresses to deceive recipients. Table of ContentsWhy DMARC Was NecessaryHow DMARC Works (Visual Guide Reference)DMARC Keys and Cryptographic ValidationBenefits of DMARCDMARC Implementation…
- Analytics & Testing
How to Build a URL Shortener (PHP, MySQL, .htaccess)
With so many long URLs cluttering the web, having your own URL shortener can help create clean, short links perfect for marketing campaigns, social media, or personal projects. From a marketing standpoint, URL shorteners are critical for a couple of reasons: Campaign Tracking: You should always append your Analytics UTM parameters to track where every visit is coming from. However,…