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Hitchhikers

Build with Yext — Your Way

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Hitchhiker (noun)

Why become a Hitchhiker?

Build — Your way

Build amazing experiences that increase engagement, decrease support costs, and drive insights.

Develop with best-in class technology

With great power comes great flexibility. Take advantage of Yext’s APIs, SDKs, and point-and-click interfaces.

Join a community of passionate builders

Share best practices with your peers on community forums or at local events.

Access exclusive Yext tools and resources

Take advantage of Hitchhiker-only webinars, workshops, coding clinics, office hours with the Yext experts, and more.

What can you expect?

Library of Content

Resources & exclusive events built for power users.

Tracks & Modules

Topics range from Yext expertise, to search, to career-building skills.

Quizzes & Challenges

Test your knowledge with quizzes and in-platform challenges.

Community

Forums and local events to ask questions and share best practices.

Badges & Ranks

Showcase your expertise with badges and ranks.

What can you build?

We provide the building blocks, you provide the application.

Site Search

In-App Search

Support Search

Workplace Search

Product Search

Data Connectors

SEO Optimized Pages

Customized Search Experiences

Start Building

Not a developer? We also provide out-of-the-box solutions for administrators to implement.

What can you learn?

Explore a sampling of the content that you can access as a Hitchhiker

Dashboards & Custom Metrics

Increase visibility into how consumers engage with your brand by building custom analytics dashboards.

Data Modeling in Yext

Learn how to build your knowledge graph by creating entities and structuring the relationships between them.

How Search Impacts the Customer Journey

The customer journey is constantly evolving, learn how to build a great experience and drive engagement.

Introduction to CSS

Learn the basics of CSS, a cornerstone markup language.

Uploading Data to Yext

Become an expert on the many ways to get the facts about your brand into the Yext platform.

Getting Started with Page Builder

Learn how to increase discovery and drive engagement by building intent pages in Yext.

Success Stories

Hear from top Hitchhikers.

Hitchhikers training has developed a whole new skill set for me."

"One thing that people might not know about being an administrator is that you need to be incredibly strategic while also being able to drill down and execute the task at hand. Administrators are often closest to the brand's data and have a great influence on how their search experience performs. It gives me a lot of pride any time I uncover new use cases, make suggestions on data mappings, or succeed with a new method I hadn’t tried before."

Garrett Gomez, Analyst at Yext

"I have really enjoyed how the Hitchhikers training program walks me through a concept and then provides a hands on activity to pull it all together."

I have always been a hands-on learner, I find it difficult to read about a concept and then try to apply it on my own."

Amanda Elliott, VP, Digital Marketing Senior Operations Manager at Townebank

Yext Administrators are scrappy problem-solvers who aren’t afraid of trying new ways to get things done."

"I became the expert in the room on how to use Yext and drive consumer engagement. I could really feel the impact of my work. My experience as an Administrator made me a great candidate for new responsibilities and helped me to take on leadership roles moving forward."

Sarah Stonehill, VP of Product at Virtual Control, HK

The Hitchhikers Platform jump started our knowledge of Yext and helped us to quickly start building amazing websites and search experiences for our clients."

"Hitchhikers provided the tools we needed for our team to continually take their learning to the next level. We started with self-serve Tracks to build up our knowledge, then we leveraged Guides to help build our first experiences, and throughout the process we were able to reach the experts in the Community with any questions we had."

Toshil Tanwar, Lead Analyst & Researcher at Dotsquares

The Hitchhikers Platform jump started our knowledge of Yext and helped us to quickly start building amazing websites and search experiences for our clients.

As an administrator it’s my job to create a great customer experience that aligns with the business’ goals."

"When you oversee everything from implementation through ongoing optimization, it’s easy to see how the core infrastructure has an impact. I learned to think critically about how to structure data. Being exposed to the latest Yext technology has exponentially grown my expertise in how to drive engagement and create a great customer experience."

Amani Farooque, Yext Administrator at Yext

Hitchhikers has helped me to branch outside of my comfort zone and take my Yext knowledge to an entirely new level that I never thought was possible."

"I feel that the skills I have in my toolbox have been upgraded and graduated into a much larger box. I'm able to be more thoughtful in how I approach building search experiences because I have a much better grasp on the lifecycle of building, implementing, and optimizing."

John McGraw, Solution Engineer at Yext

Being an Administrator is dynamic — you need to be agile with the ability to pivot from working on low level details to speaking at a high strategic level."

"My role as an administrator revealed specific technical areas that I can expand my expertise, such as configuration as code or JAMStack, and how those skills can help my career. My technical and product understanding has enhanced my knowledge of the world of search and how Yext’s products fit within the broader industry landscape."

Alyssa Hubbard, Associate Program Development Manager at Yext

The Hitchhikers training has given me the tools I need to inspect everything that is under the hood of a website."

"We're constantly looking at site HTML, targeting different elements with CSS, and reviewing analytics events to develop Answers experiences and troubleshoot when things don't go as expected. A really fun manifestation of these skills was when I was able to sit down with my Dad, and help him style some of the new elements on his own website."

Jessie Yorke, Yext Administrator at Yext

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