Recently, I reached out to a number of enterprise SEOs to poll them on the biggest issues that they face. Participants included senior SEO people from Fortune 500 companies and other large enterprises. The question was free-form, so each person was allowed to submit whatever they saw as their biggest issue. I then mapped their […]
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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Image Recognition Accuracy Study
One of the hottest areas of machine learning is image recognition. There are many major players investing heavily in this technology, including Microsoft, IBM, Google, and Amazon. But which one does the best job? That is the question that we’ll seek to answer with this study. Image recognition engines covered in this study: Amazon AWS […]
With Google’s Martin Splitt: Why Google Prefers Responsive Web Design – Here’s Why #221
Google made an interesting announcement at Google I/O in early May 2019: they now prefer responsive sites more than mobile subdomains, and dynamic serving. In this episode of the popular Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Google’s Martin Splitt joins Eric Enge and explains why Google now prefers responsive sites. Splitt shares some key metrics […]
With Google’s Martin Splitt: Why Visual Search Matters for SEO – Here’s Why #220
Google made several announcements at Google I/O in early May of 2019 about search and SEO. Images were one of the topics mentioned during the announcement. In this episode of the popular Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Google’s Martin Splitt joins Eric Enge and explains how visual search is vital to SEO and why […]
User Experience Is Becoming a Part of SEO – Here’s Why #219
User experience is becoming a part of SEO, but why does Google want to use it as a signal in their algorithm? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Brian Weiss explains how Google is using user experience to rank pages. Don’t miss a single episode of Here’s Why. Click the […]
Why Content Is More King than Ever – Here’s Why #218
You’ve heard that content is king, but today, content is more important than ever. Here’s why. Content is king. It’s still king and it hasn’t really changed. And today, I’m going to show you three case studies that will show you that content is more king than it’s ever been. Don’t miss a single […]
Why You Must Know about the New Evergreen Googlebot – Here’s Why #217
Google made an announcement at Google I/O in early May of 2019 that Googlebot is now evergreen. What does it mean for the search community? In this episode of the popular Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge, together with Google’s Martin Splitt, explains of the new evergreen Googlebot in search including rendering hash […]
Why You Must be Prepared for Visual Search – Here’s Why #216
Images SEO in visual search has been around for a long time, but why is it becoming more important to marketers? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Jess explains changes Google has made to their search result pages to show more visual content and how it may impact rankings. Don’t […]
Eric Enge’s interview with Fabrice Canel
Fabrice Canel is a Principal Program Manager at Bing, Microsoft where he is responsible for web crawling and indexing. Today’s post is the transcript of an interview in which I spoke with Fabrice. Over the 60 minutes we spent together we covered a lot of topics. During our conversation, Fabrice shared how he and his team thinks about the value of APIs, crawling, selection, quality, relevancy, visual search, and the important role the SEO continues […]
Why Pagination is Important – Here’s Why #215
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google has not made use of rel=prev/next tags for some time. But should we still implement pagination? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge explains why pagination is still important and how you should implement it. Don’t miss a single episode of […]
Top Takeaways from Next10x Digital Marketing Conference 2019
On May 2, 2019, Perficient Digital hosted the third annual Next10x conference in Boston. The one-day agenda was packed with relevant, valuable digital marketing and SEO information and networking breaks. It included 12 industry speakers and had a strong focus in two areas: The future of digital marketing Things that you can do right now […]
Why Your Content Must Be Created by Subject Matter Experts – Here’s Why #214
Consumers want accurate, reliable, easy-to-understand information. Can they trust your content? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge explains why It matters who creates your brand content. Publishing Note: Starting with episode #215 scheduled to publish on May 20th, the series will feature Eric Enge and a variety […]