Digital Marketing

This is the second time we’ve done a study on video rankings in Google and YouTube (see the first study here). This post covers: How YouTube videos dominate the top videos in Google’s results. The difference between YouTube’s and Google’s algorithms for ranking videos. An analysis of how the two algorithms differ. A short and […]

Most of the time, when performing a site migration, one of the goals is to not lose any website traffic. One thing many don’t realize is that during a site migration is actually the best time do conversion rate optimization to increase traffic. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Alex […]

In today’s world, information is considered our greatest weapon, and analytics is the forge that creates it. Analytics refers to the process of finding, illuminating, and communicating meaningful patterns in data. Through analytics, you can turn raw data into insights that will help you make better decisions. By understanding the different aspects of your data, […]

If you’re running an e-commerce website, you probably have your customers searching for your products on your site. In most instances, you’ve likely closed those search pages to search engine indexation, since they may be duplicative of some category pages. However, you may not realize that search pages often fill a gap in your category […]

So far in this mini-series, we have covered how to set up the Simple Workflow and how to automatically place newly created items into it. We now need to create a way to limit which Simple Workflow commands are available to users. In this blog post, we will go over the permissions that need to […]

Perficient was recently included as a marketing technology integrator in Gartner’s Marketing Technology Vendor Guide, 2020. This inclusion marks the second time Perficient has been listed as a sample martech integrator in the report. The Marketing Technology Vendor Guide helps marketing leaders traverse the current martech vendor landscape, identify the right marketing technology solutions to […]

Among the many powerful lessons we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is the further unearthing of healthcare disparities, from the very old patient to the young and across ethnic, racial, and economic lines. No matter where you are in the United States, America’s citizenry is changing. Millennials are now the largest adult generation in the […]

There is no doubt that the role of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) has changed significantly in the past decade. Once held up as a maven of creativity and brand, today’s technologies, customers, and pace of business demand CMOs have a wider handle on a variety of skill sets and a much deeper business acumen […]

In my previous post in this mini-series, I went over the creation of the Simple Workflow and its states. In this post, we will go over how to automatically place Sitecore items into the Draft state upon creation. We will cover two approaches to implementing this: setting the Draft state in the Standard Values of […]

Now that we have covered what a workflow is in Sitecore, let’s jump into configuring workflow states in a custom workflow. Again, the number of workflow states you need is entirely up to the requirements of your business process for getting content approved. This post will walk through the creation of a simple workflow. This […]

After a lot of SEO efforts, it is frustrating when users come to our website but don’t convert. But why and what should we do? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Alex Harris joins Eric Enge to discuss how website experimentation can help to increase conversion rate and marketing ROI.  […]

As all marketers know, visual content creation can be a long and expensive process. Photo and video shoots require a big investment in time and budget and the end result may be just a single asset or a few shots for you to use. Stock footage and photography exists, but they don’t always quite fit […]