The Best of Perficient Digital 2014

It’s been a great year for Perficient Digital content! Our articles and videos were read and shared by far more people than ever before.
Below are several lists that will connect you with our most popular content for 2014:

1. Top 10 Most Viewed Posts on the Perficient Digital Blog
2. Top 10 Most Shared Posts on the Perficient Digital Blog
3. Eric Enge’s Most Shared Guest Posts
4. Mark Traphagen’s Most Shared Guest posts
5. Top 10 Most Viewed Perficient Digital Videos

Top 10 Most Viewed Perficient Digital Blog Posts 2014

Ranked by total page views:

1. The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana (107K views)
2. Ello: The Complete Guide to the Ad-Free Social Network (38.5K views)
3. New Google Plus View Counts: Important Metric or Vanity of Vanities? (20.4K views)
4. Twitter Engagement Unmasked: A Study of More Than 4 Million Tweets (6.9K views)
5. The Great Google Authorship Kidnapping: What Happened to Your Author Photo in Search (6.6K views)
6. Google’s Matt Cutts: Understanding Social Identity on the Web Is Hard (6.3K views)
7. Google’s Gary Illyes Discusses Mobile As a Ranking Factor (5.7K views)
8. 5 Keys to Improving Search Rankings with Duane Forrester of Bing (4.3K views)
9. How Does Google Index Tweets? (4.2K views)
10. Is Link Building Dead? (2.5K views)

Top 10 Most Shared Perficient Digital Blog Posts 2014

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Ranked by total social shares (as reported by BuzzSumo)

1. Ello: The Complete Guide to the Ad-Free Social Network (5.3K shares)
2. The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana (3.8K shares)
3. New Google Plus View Counts: Important Metric or Vanity of Vanities? (1.6K shares)
4. Twitter Engagement Unmasked: A Study of More Than 4 Million Tweets (1.5K shares)
5. 5 Keys to Improving Search Rankings with Duane Forrester of Bing (1.4K shares)
6. Google’s Gary Illyes Discusses Mobile As a Ranking Factor (1.3K shares)
7. 5 Keys to Improving Search Rankings with Duane Forrester of Bing (1.3K shares)
8. Google’s Matt Cutts: Understanding Social Identity on the Web Is Hard (1.3K shares)
9. How Does Google Index Tweets? (1.1K shares)
10. Google Plus and Duplicate Content: Is There a Problem? (636 shares)

Eric Enge’s Most Shared Guest Posts 2014

The most-shared content by Perficient Digital’s Eric Enge published on sites other than this one (as reported by BuzzSumo)

1. It’s Over: The Rise & Fall of Google Authorship in Search Results (Search Engine Land – 15K shares)
2. Three Ways to Scale Your Content Marketing (Marketing Land – 3.3K shares)
3. 7 Modern Age SEO Myths (Forbes – 2.8K shares)
4. Title Tags & SEO: 3 Golden Rules (Search Engine Watch – 2.6K shares)
5. Your First 9 SEO Tasks (Plus Your Business – 2.6K shares)
6. The 4 Hardest Parts of SEO (Search Engine Land – 2.6K shares)
7. The Smart Way to Use Other People’s Audiences to Build Your Own (Copyblogger – 2.5K shares)
8. 6 SEO Predictions for 2014 (Search Engine Watch – 2.4K shares)
9. Guest Posting Remains an Important Part of Content Marketing (Forbes – 2.4K shares)
10. Link Building in 2014 Is All About Building Your Brand & Reputation (Search Engine Watch – 2.2K shares)

Mark Traphagen’s Most Shared Guest Posts 2014

The most-shared content by Perficient Digital’s Mark Traphagen published on sites other than this one (as reported by BuzzSumo)

1. It’s Over: The Rise & Fall of Google Authorship in Search Results (Search Engine Land – 15K shares)
2. I See Content Everywhere – Whiteboard Friday (Moz -2.6K shares)
3. Tweet and Repeat: The Power of Sharing and Sharing Again (Marketing Land – 2.5K shares)
4. Personal Brand Punch: Why Your Brand Should Be Represented By Real People (Moz – 2.5K shares)
5. Google Plus Hashtags: Discovering Their Hidden Secrets (Plus Your Business – 2.3K shares)
6. Why Your Brand Shouldn’t Fear Assigning Authorship (Moz – 2.3K shares)
7. Google Removes Author Photos From Search: Why And What Does It Mean? (Search Engine Land – 2.3K shares)
8. Author Photos are Gone: Does Google Authorship Still Have Value? (Moz – 2.3K shares)
9. Why Google Plus Will Not Die (But May Change) (Marketing Land – 2K shares)
10. Is Your Social Media Marketing Cart Before Your Horse? (Marketing Land – 1.3K shares)

Top 10 Most Viewed Perficient Digital Videos 2014

Ranked by YouTube views (excluding Hangout On Air videos, for which YouTube does not report view counts)

1. Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana (145K views)
2. Panda Blues Got You Down? Here’s What to Do (2.8K views)
3. Twitter Engagement Unmasked (2.8K views)
4. Will My Widget Link Building Be the Death of Me? (2K views)
5. Why Are Private Blog Networks & Microsites Dangerous (1.8K views)
6. What the Ello? (1.7K views)
7. Why Are People Afraid to Link Build? (1.6K shares)
8. Why Is Google a Learning Machine? (1.5K shares)
9. Why Do Social Media and SEO Work Better Together? (1.3K shares)
10. Why Is a Personal Brand so Powerful? (949 views)

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