Why customer “branding domains” *were* affected by the Marketo DNS outage
Not that anybody asked me about this yet! But I felt like explaining why branding (i.e. click tracking) domains were indeed affected by Tuesday's outage. Originally, the →
Keeping Thank You pages on the same CNAME as Marketo LPs
This was a nice catch by user AD on the Community [https://nation.marketo.com/thread/41040-lp-cname-upon-form-submission] and something I somehow missed before! It has significant effects on tracking and →
We coulda seen it coming...
Today's epically embarrassing (until we forget about it next week!) Marketo outage was unfortunately predictable — if you were tuned in to a certain underrated, overlong DNS outage in →
Dealing with unencoded URLs in query params (an Agical special feature)
A PHP-related post! Weird way to get back to blogging after a couple months, yep. I don't roll much with PHP these days, but… disclosure… Agical.io* is →
Code Anatomy: Turning Google Sheets API results into (better) objects, Part I
Many APIs return data structures that are pretty wacky, at least relative to how you want to process the data in your app. The property names and values are all →
Tracking clicks from non-Marketo email sends
💡Unfortunately, Marketo no longer supports the Munchkin associateLead function so this post is obsolete as of 2021-ish. Kept around for posterity. The technical heavy lifting behind this post can be →
Why Marketo branding (click tracking) domains can't = sending domains
A good question from a reader today who asks, “A client claims you can't have a From: or Reply-To: domain that's exactly the same as your →
If there's a techie on the phone, keep it real
Hope this post doesn't go too far down a sales-thought-leadery path… mostly something to get off my chest based on a few recent experiences. My clients often invite →