In the world of SEO, there is some confusion about what we mean when we use the term “semantic search.” This confusion is not surprising—many mistake the phrase semantic search with the concept of structured data (semantic language markup), but this is not the same thing. Others understand the term solely as it applies to […]
Eric Enge
Eric Enge is part of the Digital Marketing practice at Perficient. He designs studies and produces industry-related research to help prove, debunk, or evolve assumptions about digital marketing practices and their value. Eric is a writer, blogger, researcher, teacher, and keynote speaker and panelist at major industry conferences. Partnering with several other experts, Eric served as the lead author of The Art of SEO.
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How Long Until Google Honors My Website Changes? – Hardcore Marketing
Pants Guy cut out a large number of low-quality pages from his eCommerce website, based on recommendations from Perficient Digital’s video “How Many Pages Should My Website Have?“, hoping to increase his website rankings. He was disappointed when his extensive changes didn’t seem to have any immediate effect on Google. So how long does it […]
Why Your Site Structure Matters for SEO – Here’s Why #121
Subdomains, subfolders, or microsites: which is best for organizing the content of your website? In this episode of our Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Perficient Digital’s Mark Traphagen asks Eric Enge to cover the pros and cons of each, especially from an SEO perspective. Don’t miss a single episode of Here’s Why. Click the subscribe button […]
Why Voice Command Usage on Smartphones Is Growing – Here’s Why #120
It’s getting easier all the time to do the things we want to do with our smartphones by talking to them, instead of typing in commands. But how comfortable are people with using voice commands, especially out in public? In this episode of our popular Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Perficient Digital’s Mark Traphagen asks […]
Featured Snippets: New Insights, New Opportunities
Research reveals new insights into how featured snippets work This new study documents a never before made connection between featured snippets and regular snippets in the search results, as well as a new way to recognize when your site is competing for a featured snippet. I’m also going to detail an advanced process for obtaining […]
Featured Snippets: New Insights, New Opportunities
Research reveals new insights into how featured snippets work This new study documents a never before made connection between featured snippets and regular snippets in the search results, as well as a new way to recognize when your site is competing for a featured snippet. I’m also going to detail an advanced process for obtaining featured snippets. […]
Why One Little-Known Factor Can Explode Your Youtube Channel – Here’s Why #119
Most guides to optimizing your videos for YouTube search cover the basics of video titles, descriptions, and tags. But do you know the most powerful YouTube ranking signal of all? In this episode of our Here’s Why digital marketing video series, we explain why optimizing for just one often overlooked factor can blow up the reach of your […]
How Search Engines Analyze Web Pages for Search Rankings in 2017
Search engines like Google want to ensure that the quality of the web pages that show up in their search results are high, and that search engine users will be satisfied with them. If their document (web page) analysis shows strong signals that indicate poor-quality content, it can negatively impact the rankings and visibility of […]
Rating the Smarts of the Digital Personal Assistants in 2017
On March 8, 2017, I published the results of our study to see which was smarter, the Google Assistant on Google Home or Alexa on the Amazon Echo. As it happens, we tested Bing’s Cortana, and Apple’s Siri all at the same time. We also tested Google search for reference purposes, since it’s historically been […]
Rating the Smarts of the Digital Personal Assistants
On March 8, 2017, I published the results of our study to see which was smarter, the Google Assistant on Google Home or Alexa on the Amazon Echo. As it happens, we tested Bing’s Cortana, and Apple’s Siri all at the same time. We also tested Google search for reference purposes, since it’s historically been […]
The Value of Log File Analysis
Log file analysis is an important tool in any technical SEO audit and really, any regular analysis where you need to better understand how your site is being accessed and crawled by search engines. What Are Log Files and Why Use Them for SEO? Most web servers maintain a log of all access to a […]
Why You Should Not Overlook These Three SEO Audit Tasks – Here’s Why #115
When you hear the word “audit” do you start to sweat and search through shoe boxes for your old receipts? Stop worrying! We’re not talking about a tax audit, just an SEO audit. While it involves a lot of work, an SEO audit can never get you into trouble, and potentially save you from a world of hurt. […]