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Should I Use a Separate Domain for Marketing Emails?

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A client asks: “ We’ve been told that we should use a separate and unique domain for email that’s different from our main Web domain. If your main domain isn’t used for marketing emails, it can help preserve that domain’s reputation and thus improve email deliverability. Is this something you’d recommend? ”.

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The Impact of New Google & Yahoo Deliverability Rules on Purchased Lists

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Yahoo has yet to define their rules in detail, but Google’s are published here and summarized as follows: The new Google rules affect companies sending 5,000+ emails per day to any Google users, including Gmail accounts but also (crucially) Google Workspace domains. Yahoo’s rules are expected to be similar.

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10 Tough Questions to Evaluate Your Target Account List

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Does third-party intent data suggest that a specific domain is demonstrating interest in your category? Accounts with established contacts and demonstrated engagement may be the better choice. Are there intent signals that the account is a high-propensity opportunity?

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Top 10 Marketing Automation Mistakes

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SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail) are two key technical settings that are often overlooked by new marketing automation users, but should be a standard part of any marketing automation implementation. Not changing default email domain to properly brand tracking links. Not setting up SPF and DKIM.

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Hosted Landing Pages vs. Embedded Forms

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The most common reasons given for hosting landing pages as part of a company’s main Website are these: * It allows us to derive SEO benefit from site traffic to our main domain * We have more design flexibility if we’re building pages in our CMS * The Web team owns the site and doesn’t want us creating pages on our own.

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Social PPC: 17 Tips for Successful Ads on Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook

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Also, the entire user experience occurs on the Twitter domain, so you’ll generate less social traffic to your own site compared to a Promoted Tweet using your own URL. However, the resulting lead data is thin, and consist of primarily personal email addresses, making Lead Generation Cards better suited for B2C advertising.

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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

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The point being made by the article’s author, Jill Stanek, was that Marketo’s acquisition enables that company to extend dynamic, personalized marketing conversations from their current domain (email campaigns) all the way to the Website. Fair enough. What doesn’t sound right to me, however, is that 71% figure.