On Thursday October 14th, Google announced a new aspect of Google search, which the company refers to as passages. This update caused some confusion around whether it is a ranking or an indexing change. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge and Mats Tolander explain the announcements and what digital […]
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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Why Mapping User Needs is Critical to SEO – Here’s Why #251
Google has been constantly making algorithm updates in the past couple years. Why? Has their focus shifted? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge goes through different Google algorithm updates since March of 2018 and explains why Google made these updates. Don’t miss a single episode of Here’s Why. […]
Why You Need to Make a Plan for Your 2020 Holiday Shopping Season – Here’s Why #250
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed consumer behaviors in numerous ways. As the 2020 holiday season is fast approaching, we surveyed over 150 marketing executives to find out what they think is likely to happen this holiday season and how they’re preparing for it. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge […]
How the Pandemic Has Changed Holiday Season Shopping
A Survey of Over 150 Enterprise Executives The world threw a major curveball at us back in March 2020 when COVID-19 erupted on the global stage. World economies and even our basic culture were thrown into disarray. Many businesses that could not adapt to the new environment were forced to close, and the great majority […]
2020 Holiday Season: How Marketers Can Prepare and Adapt – Webinar Transcript
The world is quite a different place than it was six months ago, and with the 2020 holiday season fast approaching, the pressure is on to meet revenue goals in what’s been an uncertain year. In August, we surveyed 154 marketing executives to find out what they think is likely to happen this holiday season […]
Why Integrated Marketing Campaigns Crush Single Channel Efforts – Here’s Why #249
Integrated marketing campaigns can be challenging to execute, however, when they are done well, these synergies can lead to marketing success. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Brian Weiss explains why and how integrated marketing campaigns can be superior to single-channel efforts. Don’t miss a single episode of Here’s Why. Click […]
Why Links Still Matter in 2020 – Here’s Why #248
It has been known that links are a part of Google’s ranking factors. Is this still true in 2020? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge explains the impact of links on ranking and walks through some insights from his latest links study. Don’t miss a single episode of […]
How to Build an In-Depth Content Model to Drive SEO – Here’s Why #247
User intent has been the focus of Google’s core algorithm update in the past couple of years. They rank websites and web pages that serve user intent best. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge discusses how you can use an in-depth content model to really drive strong growth for […]
The Top SEO Challenges in Healthcare
Over the past five years, SEO has become an increasingly more important channel for acquiring new customers. The advent of COVID-19 has only accelerated that trend, as people spend more and more time online. That impacts all types of healthcare companies, including providers, insurers, device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies. In this post, we’ll discuss some […]
Why Enterprise SEO Is Different – Here’s Why #246
Large brands usually have a great offline presence. But does this get carried over online? Would these large brands need to do SEO? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge and John Dietrich explain how SEO is different for larger brands and what the keys to success are. Don’t […]
Why Google Uses Machine Learning – Here’s Why #245
Machine learning is always a hot topic in the search community, and there is still confusion on how and why Google uses machine learning in their search algorithms. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge and Jessica Peck explain why you need to understand how Google uses machine learning. […]
Why You Need to Care about Voice as an Input Medium – Here’s Why #244
Search industry has been talking about the hype of voice search for years. But what actually is the reality of voice usage today? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge reveals some insights from our fourth annual survey of voice usage and predicts when the voice revolution will actually […]