Google has made Googlebot evergreen as of May 2019, which improves rendering capacity significantly, including JavaScript rendering, JavaScript processing, and processing speed. But does it mean Google will also understand JavaScript on your page? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Mats Tolander joins Eric Enge to explain why content, links, and […]
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Why Your Website Can Reflect Your Organizational Dysfunction – Here’s Why #236
Organizational dysfunction is supposed to be an internal issue within an organization. But how can website visitors sense it by just visiting the website? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge and Brian Weiss explain how organizational dysfunction impacts users on your website and how you can fix it. […]
Eric Enge and Jay Baer- Key Factors for Delivering Seamless UX (Webinar Transcript)
As new technologies emerge and offer additional ways to interact with your customers, it’s imperative that you consider and provide a consistent, seamless user experience across ever-expanding channels and platforms. Easier said than done? Eric Enge (Digital Marketing Principal, Perficient) and Jay Baer (Founder, Convince & Convert) teamed up to present considerations and best practices […]
How Google’s Search Features Impact Organic CTR
The Information You Need to Thrive in Today’s Google Landscape This study presents never-before-seen information on how Google’s search features impact click-through rate (CTR) behavior in the search results. To our knowledge, this will be the first such study that marries actual rankings data with real clickstream data. Key findings in this report include (but […]
Why Google Now Allows Third Party JavaScript in AMP – Here’s Why #235
Many web developers had been dreaming about including JavaScript in AMP pages as the natural form of AMP bans JavaScript. Now it looks like their dream has come true. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Ben Morss joins Eric Enge to explain why Google now allows third-party JavaScript in AMP and […]
Why Google Plans to Give Non-AMP Pages the Same Treatment as AMP Pages – Here’s Why #234
Implementing Google AMP can be a challenging task for many web developers. Great news! Google is working on a project that allows non-AMP pages to be treated like AMP Pages. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Ben Morss joins Eric Enge to give some insights on the work Google has been […]
HTML and SEO (Clickbait title: Is Semantic HTML…. DEAD?)
HTML has always been the skeleton of the web: fundamental to its function, usually hidden, missing in certain areas, and important not to break. This HTML and SEO guide is written focused semantic SEO and the technical alignment between HTML and content. Structured Data has been a hot topic issue in SEO this year (as […]
HTML for Marketers || HTML Part 1
If you’ve looked at a page’s source (ctrl+u), opened up the inspector (ctrl+shift+I), or built a web page yourself, you’ve seen HTML in action. If so, this article is probably not for you – it’s more for marketers without this kind of technical background to get them up to speed on the rest of this […]
Quick Take: Google’s Change to Featured Snippets Matters to You
On January 22, 2020, Google announced a change to the search results as it relates to featured snippets – and site publishers are worried about it means for their traffic. Watch and listen as Eric Enge, Principal at Perficient Digital, talks about the change and why it’s a good thing for users. Resources Impact […]
Don’t Discount Plain Old Images in Your Visual Search Strategy
Here are some rough notes on a conversation that occurred among some really smart people on the Twitter account of my boss, Eric Enge. Eric posted an article of mine (Google at 20: A Shift from Text to Images), which sparked this discussion: Following the comments from Malte Landwehr and Cindy Krum, Aleyda Solis added, […]
You Need to Understand Google’s Changing SERP Landscape and Their Impact – Here’s Why #231
Google consistently changes search features as a way to improve user satisfaction. For search marketers, we wonder how those search features affect user’s organic click-through rate behavior. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge reveals insights from his first-ever public study on Google SERP features and click-through rates. Don’t […]
How Organic Search CTR is Impacted by Google’s Search Features in 2019
This study presents information on how Google’s move toward implementing search features is impacting click-through behavior in the search results. To our knowledge, this will be the first such study that marries actual rankings data with real clickstream data. Our partner in this project was AuthorityLabs Data Services. They identified 2M queries to track the […]