Eric Enge

Query Sequences and the Knowledge Graph Recently we showed that Google is ahead of the competition when it comes to showing answer boxes in search. Google is not one to rest on its laurels, and they continuously work on improving their Knowledge Graph capabilities. In today’s post, I will explore a number of the more […]

Google’s Knowledge Graph has been the center of much attention lately. We have been hearing a lot about another concept called the Knowledge Vault as well. But just how extensive is Google’s capability? And what about Siri and Bing/Cortana? How do they stack up? To find out, we loaded the Google App onto an iPhone […]

Google’s Knowledge Graph has been the center of much attention lately. We have been hearing a lot about another concept called the Knowledge Vault as well. But just how extensive is Google’s capability? And what about Siri and Bing/Cortana? How do they stack up? To find out, we loaded the Google App onto an iPhone […]

In December of 2013, we conducted a survey of 325 users to learn about the ways they were using Facebook. We wanted to see if we would get the same results, so we repeated the survey to see what kind of changes in awareness of various aspects world’s largest social network have occurred. We conducted […]

With the recent announcement by Google that they were bringing their three-year Google Authorship program to an end, many have been proclaiming two assumptions on social media and in blogs and blog comments: that this means both the death of author authority in search for Google and is another coffin nail in the Google+ casket. […]

On August 28, 2014, Google’s John Mueller announced the end of the Authorship markup program (also known as rel=author markup). In today’s post I will: Show you data on how authorship data was used (or not) by 150 top media sites Outline why we think this contributed to Google’s reasons for canceling the rel=author markup […]

Google has always told us they want us to be creating “high-quality pages” that give searchers exactly what they were looking for, but what do they mean by “quality”? Today’s episode brings you a lively and sometimes intense dialogue among some of the most seasoned veterans in SEO. Eric Enge and guest co-host Mark Traphagen […]

Not only is Rae Hoffman a super-smart and experienced SEO, she is a straight talker. In today’s episode you’ll get to enjoy Rae at her finest. So get ready for a no-holds-barred, roller coaster ride into Rae’s trademark rants and raves. All around, the eight SEO myths that Rae covers here, is a fascinating conversation […]

Paid search advertising is complex and tricky. So, leave your SEO skills at the door because this is a whole new ballgame. Larry Kim of Wordstream is one of the foremost experts in the world of pay-per-click. Nothing he does for his clients is by guesswork; he is extremely data driven. If you’ve ever seen […]

Few people in the online marketing world have become as well-known and respected as Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz. In today’s show host Eric Enge and guest co-host Mark Traphagen get Rand to share from his vast experience in content marketing. Rand talks about what works, what doesn’t, and why content marketing may not be […]

As the popularity of the social web has grown, many people assume that search engines like Google are making use of a so-called “social signal” to influence their search rankings. But is that actually the case? Our guest AJ Kohn is one of the most trusted and respected observers of the interaction of search and […]

Get caught up! We’ve updated this study three time since this was published. See the latest version: Google Indexing of Tweets Appears to Decline. In this study we explored the way that Google indexes tweets. The reason we embarked on this was to determine the likelihood that Google might use signals from Twitter for ranking […]