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(Article Updated - August 2024) Overview A blocklist is a database of IP addresses or domains that have been associated with the sending of unsolicited commercial email or spam. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and business email networks use information from blocklists to filter out unwanted email. As a result there can be a drop to inbox delivery rates if the IPs or domains involved with sending email are listed on a blocklist. Marketo’s Email Delivery and Compliance team monitors blocklist activity on our IPs and domains daily. When an impactful listing occurs, we reach out to the blocklist, attempt to identify the sender that triggered it, and work with the blocklist organization to get the listing resolved. There are thousands of blocklists, most will not have a significant impact on your delivery rates. Below, we have compiled a list of the blocklists that commonly appear across our sender ecosystem. Each blocklist has been grouped into a top tier (Tier I) by most impactful, to the bottom least impactful tier (Tier III). These may have little to no impact across our sender network. Tier I Blocklist Spamhaus (SBL) Impact: Spamhaus is the only blocklist that we categorize as a Tier I for a reason: it has by far the greatest impact on delivery. It is the most well-respected and widely used blocklist in the world. A listing at Spamhaus will have a negative effect on your ability to deliver emails to your customer’s inbox and can cause bounce rates of over 50%. Evidence suggests that most of the top North American ISPs use Spamhaus to inform blocking decisions. How it works: Unlike many blocklists, Spamhaus lists senders manually. This means they are proactively watching sender activity, collecting data, and base listings on a number of variables. Most commonly senders are listed for mailing to spam trap addresses that Spamhaus owns. Sometimes Spamhaus will list senders based on recipient feedback as well. Next Steps: Please note that every Spamhaus email can be quite different depending on the information provided and the nature of the listing . Because Spamhaus has multiple types of listings, the remediation steps are based on which type of blocklisting has occurred. We have listed the most common types to affect Marketo customers, from most to least impactful. Impact can range from a full block of top severity, to a partial block that is less severe (CSS Data, DBL). If remediation isn’t performed and the problem not addressed, these listings can increase in severity and turn into a full blocklisting. Spamhaus Blocklistings Types SBL (full blocklisting) Considered the most impactful. Remediation steps: Our team monitors closely for Spamhaus listings. Once alerted to the listing, we send an email notifying the customer, and reach out to the Spamhaus contact to start the remediation process. Only a Marketo delivery team member should be in direct correspondence with the Spamhaus contact, to speak on behalf of the customer, and to relay their questions and instructions, ensuring quick resolution and reduced impact. Senders that trigger this listing on a shared IP range will be moved to a more isolated, penalty range (IPB), so as not to impact the other shared senders. Those affected on a Dedicated IP, only impact their own sending and will not be moved. However, depending on the severity of the issue, our team may need to revoke a customer’s ability to send any emails until full resolution. The listing will last until Spamhaus is satisfied that the offending sender has taken the appropriate steps to mitigate the problem. SBL CSS Customers are alerted of the listing with an email containing all the information needed to immediately begin the remediation process. This is part of an automated trigger listing, that allows for a customer to delist directly on the Spamhaus website, after they’ve completed remediation. Remediation steps: Customers will go to the Spamhaus IP lookup website, at https://check.spamhaus.org, where they can check on the status of their IP and continue to monitor it in real time, until it is no longer listed there. Follow the remediation and delisting instructions provided, and check for specific details in the blocklist notification email. DBL (Domain blocklisting) Customers will receive an email notification alerting of the company domain being listed. The email will contain specific information to help narrow down and identify which email source likely triggered it within Marketo. It’s important to note that any email sent from outside of Marketo, that contained the company domain, is suspect. This means, if the sender uses multiple IPs and/multiple email platforms, then any of those could be the source. Remediation steps: Follow the detailed instructions in the email, which will also provide a link to the Spamhaus Domain reputation checker webpage, to check the real time listing status of the affected domain. Once the email source is identified and cause addressed, this customer will follow the online instructions to request to be delisted. Tier II Blocklist SpamCop Impact: SpamCop is not used by any of the major North American ISPs to inform blocking decisions, but it makes it to the Tier II list because it can have a significant impact on B2B email campaigns. SpamCop is considered a Tier I one blocklist for B2B marketers but a Tier II for B2C marketers. SpamCop is a dynamic IP blocklist, that can affect a single IP or a subset of IPs Typically, the block will automatically lift within one business day, but can take longer for relisted IPs. To have triggered a SpamCop listing likely means the sender has a list management problem that should be addressed. How it works: SpamCop lists IPs for one of two reasons: Either the email hit SpamCop spam trap addresses OR A SpamCop user has reported the email unwanted. Most of SpamCop’s spam traps are previously valid addresses that have not been active for 12 months or longer. Remediation steps: If you are seeing a significant number of bouncing emails caused by a SpamCop blocked IP but aren’t sure if your email activity triggered the listing, first identify whether you are sending on a shared sender network or not. If sending from a shared IP range when this occurs, you or any other customer sending from the same network may have contributed to the IP block. This IP block will automatically get dropped within a business day. For those on a Dedicated IP that trigger a listing, refer to the above remediation steps and resources, to address the list management issue. Tier III Blocklist (Low/ No impact ) These are considered the lowest tier and therefore cause the least impact across the Marketo sender ecosystem. Some of these blocklists were more impactful at one time, while others are only impactful based on the sender region (Manitu). Others still can suddenly flare up (Lashback). There are also many blocklists that are ignored (0spam), and are not taken seriously because they do not provide any means to delist once on the list (NoSolicitado) or that they charge money to have the listing removed ( UCEPROTECT ). The pay-to-delist model is not well respected in the email industry. When using blocklist tool checkers, such as MXToolBox, many blocklists will appear, but very few are relevant. Here is our selection of Blocklists you may come across that are least impactful: Project Honey Pot SpamAssassin URIBL/SURBL DrMX PSBL 0spam HostKarma Ascams ZapBL Barracuda Trendmicro Inc. Cloudmark Proofpoint Invaluement ISP Blocklists Some ISPs use internal blocklists to make blocking decisions. Examples include AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook and Hotmail. If your IP is being blocked by one of these networks, and those networks have a large presence in your lists, a block of this kind could have a noticeable negative impact on delivery. Marketo monitors for significant ISP blocks. Those experiencing deliverability issues with emails not making it to the Inbox and bulking in the spam folder may benefit from additional services with our Email Delivery Consultants. Remediation Steps: Email Delivery Compliance Team works to resolve any ISP blocks. ISP blocks are are usually resolved or lifted within less than 24 hours of a delisting request. Customers experiencing significant blocks for Microsoft domains (outlook.com, live.com, microsoft.com), can submit a request to the delivery team to seek mitigation on their behalf. Additional Resources: Blocklist Deep Dive Abuse Report Deep Dive What is a spamtrap, or spam trap, and why does it matter? Blocklist remediation Blocklist resolution flowchart Successful lead reconfirmation What is a blocklist?

Image: Step Flow for Predictive Content for Web and Email What is Auto Content Discovery? This post explains the first part of the flow image above: discovering, mapping, and tracking your content assets. Content Discovery is used in the Predictive Content app to auto-discover all the content assets (videos, pdfs, blog posts, press releases, white papers, etc.) on a website/domain. Once discovered, you can see how your content is performing and decide which pieces of content should be prepared, approved, and enabled for the Predictive Content outcomes on web (either in the recommendation bar or rich media) and email. Setting up Predictive Content and Content Discovery See Set Up Docs: http://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Getting+Started+with+Predictive+Content Steps RTP Javascript tag is installed on all your web pages (Note: RTP is now called Web Personalization) Set Asset Discovery to On Asset Discovery auto-discovers extensions (PDFs, PPT, MP4, OFF, WEBM) and a click/view on embedded videos (Youtube, Vimeo, Wistia) Create URL Patterns Setting URL patterns auto-discovers content when a web visitor clicks on the HTML web page relevant to the content pattern. The URL syntax pattern determines your ability to use this feature optimally (e.g., to create a pattern for press releases, your press releases should all be stored on a page identified as www.yoursite.com/press-releases/*). How is content auto-discovered? The content discovery technology uses an event listener that runs on every web page (where the RTP Javascript tag is installed) and waits for a web visitor to click on a URL link or arrive directly on that web page in a browser. If that link includes an extension (PDF, ppt, embedded video) or matches the URL pattern defined, then it will be discovered and added to the All Content page in the Predictive Content app. Only content pieces that a web visitor interacted with (clicked on or viewed) once the RTP Javascript tag has been installed are discovered via Content Discovery. If the content is already discovered, it will add to the tracking and views of those discovered pieces. You can also manually add new content to be listed and tracked in the All Content page. Image: All Content Page in the Predictive Content app displaying and tracking all discovered content What data is discovered? Visitor Data (Used for Analytics + Predictive Algorithm) Pages Viewed - number of page views by the user in the session Visit Count for Web Visitor Last Content URL Seen Last 5 Content Assets clicked via Predictive Content that this visitor has seen in the last 90 days Last Web Campaigns Seen - 10 last campaigns per session (within the last 5 sessions) Inferred Organization Inferred, Industry, Size, Revenue Inferred Country, State, City Search Term Content Data Extensions Video (Youtube, Vimeo, Wistia) Video Name Video URL Video Image URL PDF PDF Name PDF URL URL Patterns (HTML pages) Found via metadata of the HTML page Content Name Content URL Content Image URL Content Description What data is auto-populated during the auto-discovery phase? Based on the content data we discover, the aim is to populate as much of the Predictive Content as possible, making it quicker, easier and involves less prep work for you. However, you still need to review the discovered content and then approve and enable it for the Predictive Source (Email, Rich Media, Recommendation Bar). Assuming we discover an HTML page defined in URL patterns, this HTML content piece will be populated in the following fields in Predictive Content: Predictive Content Fields Auto-Populated Value Notes Content Name (Content Name) Unique Value Content URL (Content URL) The URL is consistent for all sources (email, bar, rich media) Categories Video OR Category Name from URL Pattern If Video is discovered, the category is populated as Video. Category populated from defined URL Pattern. e.g., Marketo.com/blog = Blog all discovered content based on this URL would receive Blog as a category Category is consistent for all sources (email, bar, rich media) Content Title (Content Name) Email Title (Content Name) Email URL (Content URL) Email Image URL (Content Image URL) Email Button Label Read More Not Auto-populated. Default is "Read More." Rich Media Title (Content Name) Rich Media URL (Content URL) Rich Media Image URL (Content Image URL) Rich Media Description (Content Description) Bar Title (Content Name) Bar URL (Content URL) Image: Example of Populating Metadata for HTML content into Predictive Content

Included in this Article: Overview Creating Custom Fields Dynamic Updates Set Up Custom Fields in RTP Filter by Custom Fields Overview Unfortunately RTP does not support the option to use Lead Database segmentations as segments in RTP. However, it is still possible with a bit of a workaround. Essentially, you will want to create custom fields for each segmentation, dynamically update them using smart campaigns, and filter by these custom fields in RTP. Below we will describe the steps you will need to take to implement this. Creating Custom Fields To start off, you will have to make a custom field in My Marketo for each segmentation you wish to use in RTP. Follow the steps in this article to get the custom fields set up in My Marketo. Make sure to select Boolean in the Type field. Dynamic Updates Next, you will need to assign these custom fields to those matching their respective segmentations. To do so, we will create a smart campaign, which will also update the list as more leads begin to match the segmentation. In My Marketo, visit the Marketing Activities page and create a new Smart Campaign In the Smart List tab, choose the filter for your desired segmentation, and the Segment Changes trigger for the same segmentation The filter will include all of the existing members of the segmentation, and the trigger will include any members that qualify for the segmentation in the future. Next, In the Flow tab, select the Change Data Value action, click Add Choice, and format the action to change your custom field to true when the lead qualifies for your desired segment, and false otherwise It is important to have both cases, for your lead matching the segmentation and for not matching, because leads can both qualify or be disqualified for segmentations at any point in time. Finally, under the Schedule tab, edit the Smart Campaign Settings so this will apply every time, and Activate the campaign Set Up Custom Fields in RTP Once you have set up your custom fields in My Marketo, you will also have to set up this field to display in RTP: Go to your Account Settings and navigate to the Database tab Select your custom fields in the drop down menu at the bottom of the page, then click Filter by Custom Fields Finally, once you've set up the custom field in My Marketo and in RTP, you can use the custom field to target the leads that qualify for your segmentation in My Marketo. To do so: Go to the Segments page and create a new segment Lastly, use the Database filter, select your custom field, and choose either true or false depending on if you want to target those in or out of the segmentation There you have it! You can now use your segmentations in My Marketo to target your audience in RTP campaigns.

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Issue You are experiencing slow processing of campaigns, smart lists, and reports. Solution There are three key components that can slow down an instance: Number of trigger campaigns: Trigger campaigns are always on, always listening. If there are 50 campaigns triggering at the same time, all the 50 triggers will be in queue, slowing down your processing and routing inside Marketo. Solution: Reduce the number of Triggers. Convert some of the triggers to batches: Batches also run all the flow steps for every lead at once, instead of serially, which reduces total processing time. Complexity of smart lists: The more complex a smart list, the harder it is for the system to figure it out, which increases backend processing and even creates campaign failures from timeouts. Solution: Reduce the number of nested smart lists called in a smart list. Whenever you ask Marketo to call another Smart List, it has to wait until all of the other smart lists finish, before putting together the final counts. Instead of Marketo looking for the list and running it, just put the filters in the trigger itself. Volume of Leads: With regular cleaning and good systems design, it is fairly easy to keep your system running fast. Reduce the number of leads that can flow through with filters. Clean up the inactive leads at regular intervals.

This is a article attached image Upon signing a contract with Marketo you are provisioned a Marketo instance and a Support Service. There are four different types of Support Services which are available to meet different customer support needs: Online (Legacy) Business or PREMIER SUPPORT BUSINESS (Legacy) Premier or PREMIER SUPPORT ENTERPRISE (Legacy) Elite or PREMIER SUPPORT ELITE Each Support Service has a different Service Level Target (SLT). An SLT is the amount of time Marketo Support targets to make first contact with you after a support case has been submitted. SLTs differ for each Support Service and priority level. Priority levels range from Priority P1 to Priority P4. Here are the SLTs and priority levels for each Support Service: Priority Online (Legacy) Business PREMIER SUPPORT BUSINESS (Legacy) Premier PREMIER SUPPORT ENTERPRISE (Legacy) Elite PREMIER SUPPORT ELITE P1 1 hour 1 hour 1 hour 30 minutes 30 minutes 30 minutes 15 minutes P2 4 hours 3 hours 2 hours 2 hours 1 hour 2 hours 30 minutes P3 6 hours 5 hours 4 hours 4 hours 2 hours 2 hours 1 hour P4 3 days 1 day 1 day 1 day 1 day 1 day 1 day Here are the descriptions for each priority level: Priority Description P1 Mission Critical: Core business function down or potential loss of mission critical data P2 Urgent: Major feature or workflow is not functioning. Mission critical workflow and majority of user community is not blocked P3 Important: Normal usability or task completion is impacted but functional, or workaround is available P4 Minor: Minor issue requiring a correction. Normal workflow is not impacted Find more information About Support here!

Summary New checkbox for query parameters available when adding new content or editing current content. Issue You were previously unable to specify query parameters for predictive content, and query parameters were not used when adding new content, editing current content, and reporting on URL clicks. Autodiscovery works by adding a new URL to the DB, and later on, clicking counts are accumulated against the newly found asset. The asset is determined based on the URL (and there, it previously didn't account for anything that followed the ? in the URL. The same was used as a validation when a user added new content. The rule to determine this part of the URL, minus the query parameters, was a requirement back then and was taken into account during design. Solution As you add predictive content from the predictive content page, you need to have the checkbox on this page to allow the user to decide whether they want to include/exclude the query parameters while adding it. The same thing should be followed for editing predictive content as well. Engineering built a nuanced approach that provided flexibility to include or exclude query patterns in determining a unique URL and added a feature to include query parameters when manually creating a piece of content. It should rightly identify the right asset to record clicks/views against as well.

The Named Accounts (or Account Based Marketing) module is sold separately. If you did purchase this module follow these instructions to create a new Named Account list. Common issues when uploading a new list: 1. Total number of records exceeded Root cause: Each account is eligible for up to 10,000 named account records. Contact your account manager to purchased an additional package of records or remove old lists. 2. Your account is not enabled for uploading Named Account Lists. Contact your account manager for more details Root cause: You didn't purchase the Named Accounts module or your account is misconfigured and this module is disabled - contact support.

Note: Once you have migrated to Admin Console, you can manage your support cases through the feature provided in the Admin Console Platform. To learn more, visit: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/customer-one/using/home.html. Once you have submitted a case to Marketo support, we provide a simple way of staying connected to your case and the cases submitted from your company through the Marketo Support Portal. You can access the support portal through your Marketo instance by selecting Community in the top right corner: This is a article attached image You can also access the support portal directly at https://support.marketo.com and login with your Marketo credentials (login and password). This will not work for users with SSO. Once you are in the support portal you can Create a Case for Marketo Support or you can also review any cases that are open and being worked on by support or review your case history. Navigate to My Case management: This is a article attached image From the My Cases navigation you can access the following case views: This is a article attached image My Recent Cases* - Cases that you have opened in the past 30 days All Company Recent Cases* - Cases that any authorized support contact has opened in the past 30 days My Open Cases – Cases created by you that are being triaged by Support and pending Support’s response and are more than 30 days old My Closed Cases – Cases that were created by you and are now closed My Awaiting Fix Cases – Cases that were created by you where Marketo is developing a fix which will be implemented at a later date All Company Closed Cases – Cases that were created by you or your colleagues that are now closed All Company Open Cases - All open cases submitted for the account Company Awaiting Fix Cases – Cases that were created by you or your colleagues where Marketo is developing a fix which will be implemented at a later date Management Escalations - Escalations opened by you or your colleagues Survey Cases - Surveys that are available for you to fill out after a case is closed *Cases that have been opened for more than 30 days will move from Recent cases to Open cases To view specific case details, click a case number. This is a article attached image From the Case Details, you can perform the following: Close your Case - Select the "My Case is Resolved" button to close your case Add Comments - Provide additional comments to support or respond to a Support question Add Attachment - Provide any screenshots or documents that will help illustrate the issue you are reporting If your case has been closed there are two options available to you. Reopen - You can reopen your case if you are not satisfied with the case resolution by adding a comment in the case. Case Survey - Once your case has closed, please consider offering feedback on the level of Support you received.

All the Recommendation Bar customization options are available within the RTP account settings page: Colors: Link Color: select the color from the dropdown choices. Background Color:select the color from the dropdown choices. Font: Font Size: type in the size in the 'Font Size' field (must be in pixels - px) Font Family: type in the 'Font Family' field Arrow Icon Color: select the color from the dropdown choices. Icon Font: select the icon style Icon Opacity: define the opacity level for the arrows Advanced customization There is additional customization can be done by the support team: Horizontal Bar Position: bottom (default) /top Vertical Bar Position: right (default) / left

No - It’s done automatically and behind the scenes. The algorithms used by our proprietary technology automatically present relevant content to your audience segment using digital behavior, keyword search terms, and firmographics such as: geolocation, employee size, revenue size, and industry. The recommendation engine uses predictive analytics and machine learning to predict which content asset will most likely to be individually relevant for each one of your website visitors to read.

New Lead with no email address and no Marketo cookie: If a new lead fills out a Marketo form, their Marketo cookie is created, lead details (including the cookie) will be updated and the Lead-Database and RTP sync process will be initiated. They will then be known to RTP and eligible for 1:1 personalized RTP campaigns. This sync process may take a few minutes so personalization based on lead data will be available from the lead’s next visit. Lead with email address but no Marketo cookie: When a known lead with no cookie (e.g. a lead from a tradeshow or a list) receives a Marketo email campaign and clicks on a link in the email and arrives to the website, the RTP script runs and a new Marketo cookie is created for them. The creation of the cookie is also sent to the Lead-Database and initiates the RTP sync process for this lead. This sync process may take a few minutes so personalization based on lead data will be available from the lead’s next visit. Known Lead with email address and Marketo cookie: Any changes to the lead’s data will be synced between the Lead-Database and RTP within 5 minutes interval.

Included in this Article: Overview Why This Happens Two Ways to Fix this Problem Set the campaign as "Not Sticky" Use a dedicated Zone id that exists only on the page(s) to include in the campaign Overview In the Web Personalization platform, you defined a campaign that included certain pages, but you are seeing the campaign appear on pages that you didn't intend them to appear on. Below, we will describe what might be the issue and how to solve it. Why This Happens When defining a segment using the "Specific Pages" parameter, every visitor that views this page will be matched to that segment. Once this happens, the "sticky" campaign will be triggered and will be displayed on every page that includes this Zone id parameter. After the visitor is matched to the segment and the campaign is triggered, the segment is not taken into consideration anymore, so this visitor will keep seeing the campaign every time the Zone id exists on the page. Two Ways to Fix this Problem Set the campaign as "Not Sticky" This will make the campaign show up only once per session, and only when visitors are viewing the specific pages defined in the segment. Go to the Campaigns page Edit the existing campaign Uncheck the box for "Sticky" Use a dedicated Zone id that exists only on the page(s) to include in the campaign In Zone campaigns are displayed in a particular zone in a website, designated by the Zone id. Find "Zone id" in the campaign editor Then, give the campaign a Zone id corresponding to a unique div ID tag on the desired site(s). This will ensure that once a visitor matches the segment and visited this page once, they will keep seeing the Call To Action (CTA) on this page.

Article Text Included in this article Overview The Issue The Explanation Overview Sometimes you'll see an organization show up as "ISP - Anonymous - Proxy" in your visitors list in RTP. The Issue RTP is a powerful product with an immense database, but not every ISP can be found. When we receive a visit from an ISP we can't identify, instead of omitting them from our results, we use the name "ISP - Anonymous - Proxy" and set the location to "United States. The Explanation Pretty much any free Wifi signal you find like at a library or coffee shop will be listed as an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The admins for that ISP service can configure their network in any way they would like, including whether they allow for identification of their network. If there is no data provided, there's nothing for RTP or any other service to gather. In that case, that's when you'd see the "ISP - Anonymous - Proxy" listing for a visitor in RTP.

Article Text Image: Step Flow for Predictive Content for Web and Email What are Content URL Patterns? This post explains the first part of the flow image above: the discovery and tracking of content for the Predictive Content app. During the setup phase, the marketer defines their content URL patterns (See Create Content Patterns for more information), in order for Marketo to discover HTML content (e.g., blog posts, press release, news articles) across a domain. Setting URL patterns allows Marketo to auto-discover content when a web visitor clicks on the HTML web page within the content pattern. This content is then added to the All Content page in Predictive Content. Setting up URL Patterns Go to User Profile > Content Settings > URL Patterns. (For more information, see the Getting Started doc: Getting Started with Predictive Content) Image: URL Patterns Page Rules for Content URL Patterns Use of a wildcard (*) is permitted throughout the expression. e.g., domain.com/* or domain.com/*blog* It's recommended to use /* at end of the expression to continue pattern discovery. e.g., domain.com/blog/* to discover all your blog posts in the blog folder Content Patterns are not case sensitive. URL Pattern: "domain.com/Blog/*" will discover all HTML pages on "domain.com/Blog" and "domain.com/blog" Parameters in URLs are not discovered. Auto-content discovery removes the URL parameters in order to avoid discovering the same content URL multiple time with different parameters. Examples of Content URL Patterns Domain URL Pattern Type Result domain.com blog/* Pattern Discovers all your content that matches the pattern domain.com/blog/. Example: domain.com/blog/5-top-tricks domain.com/blog/2017/new-year-solutions domain.com/Blog/3-best-recipes domain.com article/2017/* Pattern Discovers all your content that matches the pattern domain.com/article/2017/ Example: domain.com/article/2017/5-top-tricks domain.com *datasheets* Contains Discovers any URL that contains the word "datasheets" Example: domain.com/datasheets/5-top-tricks domain.com/blog/5-top-datasheets domain.com press-release Exact Only one HTML page is discovered: Example: domain.com/press-release domain.com Exact If the domain is selected and the URL expression left empty, the URL pattern will discover only the home page Example: domain.com sub.domain.com blog/* Pattern Discovers all your html pages in the folder blog only on the sub domain sub.domain.com

Article Text Included in this article: Navigate to the Clickstream module How is Visit Duration Caluclated 00:00 Visit Duration Single page viewed Session timed out Navigate to the Clickstream module Go to the Visitors page Click on a visitor to find the Clickstream module in the bottom right How is Visit Duration Caluclated When a visitor visits a website being tracked by an RTP campaign, it records clicks in the Clickstream module in the RTP platform. Clicking on a visitor allows you to view their viewing information in the Customer Journey section, including: Links clicked Time stamp of each link click Total visit duration Visit duration is calculated by subtracting the first time stamp from the last time stamp. In other words: visit duration = last time stamp - first time stamp. See the image above for an example of this calculation. 00:00 Visit Duration Single page viewed Both RTP and Google Analytics rely on clicks to determine visit duration. This means that if a visitor only views a single page, neither RTP or GA can track when the visitor leaves the page, since there is only the initial time stamp without a time stamp to mark the exit from the page. The visit duration for viewers that didn't view more than one page during the session is recorded at 00:00 since it cannot be calculated. Session timed out Another way that a visit duration can be recorded as 00:00 is if a visitor's session times out. By default, a session will end after 15 minutes of inactivity. For example, if a visitor stays on a page without making any clicks for 25 minutes (perhaps they are reading an article or watching a long video), that session will time out and be recorded with a duration of 00:00. If the visitor finally makes a click after the 25 minutes of inactivity, a new session will begin. In Google Analytics, the session timeout can be customized to be longer or shorter than the default 15 minutes.

Article Text Included in this Article: Overview Email Reports not Being Sent Check Report Preferences Fewer Leads than Expected Check Personal Regions Settings Cross-Domain Tracking Data Includes Own Company Overview All RTP users should be receiving a monthly and quarterly Summary Report. This email evaluates the performance of campaigns and recommended content and compares it to that of the previous month or quarter. Performance is based on click count and number of visitors converted to known leads, whether direct or assisted. Direct leads are visitors that clicked on a campaign or a piece of recommended content and filled out a form in the same visit. Assisted leads are visitors that clicked on a campaign or a piece of recommended content and filled out a form in a separate visit, up to 6 months in the future. If you would like to unsubscribe from the Summary Reports, see this article. Otherwise, several potential issues with Summary Reports are outlined below along with their potential solutions. Email Reports not Being Sent Check Spam Folder As a first step, try checking your spam folder. It's certainly possible that the email reports did not make it past your email client's spam filters. Check Report Preferences In your RTP settings, you will be able to enable or disable email reports. If you are expecting reports but not receiving them, it is possible the reports were disabled in your preferences. To check: Go to User Settings Check the Email Report settings at the bottom of the page Make sure to check the box for Summary Report and whether you would like a monthly or quarterly (or both) report. This page is also where you will be able to manage any other RTP email reports you wish to be subscribed to. Fewer Leads than Expected Check Personal Regions Settings Another page to check is the Personal Regions page. This page will allow you to display data in the Web Personalization platform and send email reports only related to the specified regions. In User Settings, click the Edit Regions button This should take you to the Set Personal Regions page: On this page, you will want to verify that any region you may have leads in is checked (marked as included in your Personal Regions). If regions that you have leads in are not included, the Web Personalization platform will not display data from that region or include it in the email reports. This means that if you have leads that are not included in your Personal Regions, their activity will not be included in Summary Reports. Cross-Domain Tracking If the visitor is shown a recommendation on one domain, but the recommended content is hosted on a different domain, two different sessions will be recorded. This divides the visit into two sessions: The click on the link to the recommended content, on the first domain The content itself and the form fill-out, on the second domain Because the click and the form fill are in two different sessions, the lead will be recorded as an Assisted Lead rather than a Direct Lead. This applies for both top-level domains (www.firstdomain.com and www.seconddomain.com) and sub-domains (pages.domain.com and www.domain.com/new_page). Cross-domain tracking will ultimately skew your metrics towards more Assisted Leads. To reduce the impact of this limitation, keep content recommendation and the content itself within the same domain when possible. Data Includes Own Company Clicks and visits from your own company can significantly skew your summary data, as your own employees may be visiting the company website on a daily basis. Because of this, it is important to exclude your own company from the organizations contributing to your Web Personalization data. To do this: Go to your Account Settings Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the Exclude IPs field In order to exclude your company's traffic from your data and reports, you will need to know the outbound IP address of your company's network. You should be able to obtain this information from your company's IT department. Once you have your company's outbound IP address, enter it into the Exclude IPs field and press

Article Text Included in this article: Overview Missing or Extra Headers Issues with Quotes Invalid Characters Invalid Country or State Names Overview The Named Accounts feature is a way to target your RTP Campaigns to specific Accounts in a Segment. It's a powerful tool for targeting specific organizations, but you may encounter errors when uploading the list of Accounts you wish to target. This doc will go over over the most common problems experienced when trying to upload a CSV file to a Named Accounts list. To learn how to upload a Named Accounts list, follow this article. Missing or Extra Headers The first line of your CSV file should be, in order: Name, Domain, Country, State. Make sure there are no extra columns or white spaces at the end of the line. See the screenshot below for an example of how to format your headers Issues with Quotes Occasionally Excel will use curly quotes, which look like these: “ ”. However, curly quotes are not recognized by the uploader, instead the uploader will recognize straight quotes like these: " ". Any curly quotes will need to be replaced by straight quotes to resolve any uploading issues. To do this: First, make sure your file is saved as a CSV file (.csv) and not an excel file (.xlsx) Right click on the file to open the CSV file using a text editor (ex. Notepad, TextEdit, etc) Find and replace both opening (“) and closing (”) curly quotes with a regular quote (") Invalid Characters This error is caused when there is an invalid character in the CSV file that you are trying to import. This is particularly common in CSV files using non-English characters. To rectify this, make sure your CSV file is UTF-8 encoded. By default, Excel encodes characters in ANSI format, so if your file has non-English characters in it, you will need to convert it to UTF-8. You can do this in Notepad or similar text editors using the following steps: Open the CSV file in the text editor and click "Save As" Save as type: All Files (Make sure you include the .csv file extension in the file name) Change the Encoding to UTF-8 Invalid Country or State Names If the location columns are in use (they are optional), check to verify that the countries and states are input in the correct way: Country names should be either the full country name, or its two digit country code. Ex: United States or US State names should just be their two digit state code. Ex: CA, NY, OR Make sure that only US states are included in the 'State' column. Named Account lists do not support other countries' states or provinces.

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