Content Marketing

Understanding where you are within Experience Editor is critical to understanding what you are editing. Understanding the 3 distinct editable elements can help you navigate more effectively.

Why is so much content marketing unsuccessful? Unfortunately, so much of the brand content I see and study creates desert islands. That is, it isolates itself in one of two ways, which I call content marketing desert islands. Imagine two real islands. Both are populated and within sight of each other. But they have no […]

Content marketing is a highly underutilized approach that can build your brand, reputation, and visibility while bringing new prospects to the top of your sales funnel. Well-structured campaigns can achieve all of these things, and they can also lift your SEO traffic at the same time. At the core of successful campaigns is a keen […]

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist…I am a person who does those things.” —Edward Gorey Being greeted with your name and recommendations for products and services is common for return website visits, but personalization is evolving rapidly. And rightly […]

Social media can be a valuable asset to your SEO efforts, but not in the way most people think. Google doesn’t rank social media links the same way it does other site links. So while your link may be getting engagement on social, it doesn’t influence how Google ranks linked content. Check out our recent […]

Version control. Whether your marketing team is within an agency, small business, enterprise, or startup, keeping track of content versions is a struggle. And the struggle is real for everyone on the team. When multiple people touch content files, things can get ugly. Changes get lost or overwritten, the wrong versions get passed along from […]

The first thing we notice when coming across branded content is the brand itself. Is it a brand we trust? Have we had a positive experience in the past? What value will this content provide? Check out our recent video from Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen, who recently joined Perficient Digital through our acquisition of […]

Creating healthcare content for a general readership isn’t always easy, but it can be very satisfying – especially when you’re providing useful information on topics that people care about. I’ve spent much of my career writing about health and wellness for magazines, websites, and corporate clients (and, as an editor, helping other writers do their […]

I received a letter in the mail a few weeks ago. That’s right. A personal, handwritten letter. It was from a 5th grader whom I’m sponsoring in a classroom reading program. It was so fun to get something personal in my mailbox—and feel connected to a young person and an important project—that I read it at […]

At Sitecore Symposium 2018, Linda Baker and Christina Deno from Wyanoke Group and Healio.com talked about how they used natural language processing, semantic tagging and machine learning to enhance the medical content that their company produces. Wyanoke Group provides education and communication services to the healthcare industry.  Healio.com is a clinical news, information and education […]

The concept of author authority (or “author rank”) in Google Search has a long and somewhat muddy history. To many of us, it makes sense that Google would value the “EAT” (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) of content creators in its quest to judge the quality of content. After all, wouldn’t you rather get medical advice […]

Implementing proactive monitoring of AEM web applications using Sling Health Checks and Nagios when hosting through Adobe Managed Services.