Analytics

Are you tied up with average time on page as your go-to metric for evaluating the effectiveness of your content? In this episode of the popular Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Perficient Digital’s Mark Traphagen explains why average time on page doesn’t work for single-page views, and reveals a better metric to use. Don’t […]

Ask three digital marketers what their biggest challenges are, and you’ll likely get three different answers. But is there an underlying theme? Common goal? In most cases, yes. We all seem to be striving to make informed, data-driven decisions, and in turn, improve the customer experience. Overcoming the major challenges marketers face today – elevated […]

Recently we published data that suggests that Google does NOT use Chrome data to discover new URLs for crawling. That surprised a lot of people because most assume that Google uses every possible source to find new content. Today, I’m publishing the results of a study that takes this process one step further. In this […]

At the recent Adobe Symposium in Chicago, I had the chance to attend a presentation by <a href=”https://twitter.com/drcedricalford?lang=en” target=”_blank” title=”Dr. Cedric D Alford, Adobe Microsoft partnership lead” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Dr. Cedric D Alford</a>. Dr. Alford is leading the go to market strategy for the Adobe-Microsoft partnership. To this point, I have to admit, I’ve struggled to […]

Poor Sir Laurence O’Bliviay! As an actor, he lives for press mentions, but his agent can’t find any. Are you tracking your brand mentions online? Do you know what others are saying about your company? Are you effective at getting media and influencers to talk about you? In this episode of the popular Here’s Why […]

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Adobe Analytics Partner Café in Chicago. This awesome event was a gathering of fellow Adobe Analytics practitioners and partners to hear directly from Adobe about the roadmap of the Adobe Analytics Cloud, get insights into Adobe.io and network with other experts.   2018: The Year of Customer Intelligence   The primary trend […]

We all talk a lot about customer experience, and for good reason. The shift to digital has been a complete game-changer, and consumers have more options than ever before. Long gone are the days of pulling out a massive phone book to find a new primary care physician or travel agent for your next vacation, or […]

I’m thrilled to be presenting AEM DataLayer at #IMMERSE17, the global virtual conference for the AEM Developer Community on May 17th at 3:15 PM PT. This talk will extend on my #AEMRockstar presentation on the AEM DataLayer library and will get into more details about how to use the AEM DataLayer library to easily integrate […]

This year’s Adobe Summit was the biggest and best yet. It was also the inaugural year for the AEM Rockstar competition and session. Dan Klco, an experienced Adobe Digital Marketing Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Consultant and Advisor from Perficient, nailed his presentation and wowed both attendees and the judging panel. As the winner, he took home […]

On a recent project, I’d gotten an interesting request to implement custom Adobe Analytics tracking for a web application using Google Tag Manager (GTM) for tag management. The customer already used Google Tag Manager for tracking AdSense and other ad tools but they had a legacy implementation of Adobe Analytics that they wanted to use […]

At Adobe Summit 2017, personalized customer experience was on display in the general sessions, sneaks and many other areas. However, in talking with individuals, I kept hearing that personalization is what they want to do, but they are finding it difficult to replicate what they see at conferences. Some stats to support why personalization is […]

For the past six years at Adobe Summit one of the highlight sessions is called Adobe Sneaks. In this session, Adobe employees display their ideas on future projects and innovations for Adobe customers, potential customers and partners. Not all of the innovations displayed at Sneaks make it into actual products, but in the past, most sneaks have […]