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MarTech engineering teardowns — Marketo, GA4/GTM, lead routing, attribution, WordPress, and technical SEO. Problems actually hit, not hypotheticals.

Tech 7 min read

I Automated the Most Boring Job in SEO

Content decay quietly drains traffic from your best posts. Here's how to spot it — and the free WordPress plugin that finds it, explains it, and fixes it with AI.

Tech 6 min read

The 71% Conversion Drop That Never Happened

A GA4 conversion drop looked like a funnel collapse. The real cause wasn't lost demos — it was a form view marked as a key event. Here's the fix.

Tech 4 min read

Fake-but-Valid Email Domains: the Spam Trap Bounce Validation Can't See

Junk leads with addresses like alex@example.com passed email validation, synced to the CRM, and reached reps. Why bounce-based validation is blind to IANA-reserved domains, why the obvious phone-number fix backfires, and the two-gate fix that works.

Tech 4 min read

One Email Blast, 4,090 Ghost Sessions: an sGTM Blocking-Trigger Gap

A Marketo email blast produced 4,090 unassigned GA4 sessions with (not set) source and zero engagement. The root cause was an empty page_location slipping through a server-side GTM blocking trigger — fixed with one regex update.