smx-logo-ko Online | March 2025
eric-enge-no-background

Eric Enge

Technical SEO Master Class

Online August 21-22

Move beyond on-page SEO fundamentals and understand the gory technical underpinnings.

What does it take to bring your SEO game to the next level?

Join us for: Leveraging technical SEO and AI to drive growth with Eric Enge to learn how to implement data-driven tactics to optimize your online presence.

Online August 21-22 | 12:00pm – 3:00pm ET | $299

You will learn:

  • What we learned from the Google Leak. On May 27th we saw a large leak from Google that identified a number of types of data that they collect from the web as well as some insight into how they collect it. From this we can glean what types of signals are behind E-E-A-T, key aspects of how the link algorithms work, the importance of freshness, and more. We’ll deep dive into what we learned and how it impacts your SEO strategy.

  • The revolution underway. Then we’ll provide you with a full understanding of the impact the generative AI revolution is having on content and SEO. We’ll talk about the limitations of AI and what you must do to successfully work around those. We’ll discuss the positive impacts and how you can leverage generative AI to improve your SEO results. You’ll also get to see how five different generative AI platforms performed in terms of accuracy, completeness and quality.

  • Operationalizing AI. This section is where we’ll outline how to set up your organization to begin working with generative AI. Yes, there are limitations and risks, but used the right way there is the potential to significantly expand the capabilities of your team. Plus, we’ll discuss the underlying motivations that drive Google’s approach to search quality and how it impacts your use of AI and your web publishing strategy.

  • AI case studies. In this part, we’ll bring in real-life case studies to show you how to use generative AI in your organizations to increase productivity by using it to do quick SEO audits, create Schema, write hreflang tags, create .htaccess code, generate Robots.txt instructions and more. We’ll also talk about AI writing assistant tools.

  • Advanced site architecture. This is an important section on technical SEO, which has been adapted to what we learned from the Google Leak. We’ll discuss how your site is crawled and indexed, accessibility and discoverability, rendering and JavaScript, tags and more. You’ll learn what makes a site architecture ideal for Google.

  • Structured data. Here we’ll talk about all-things Schema and rich results, including rich results testing tools. You’ll understand Google’s remaining limitations in processing JavaScript and how to deal with them as well as the changing Schema landscape and where it’s likely to end up.

  • Content. Learn how to map out your content strategy to be seen as a top player in your market. We’ll talk about E-E-A-T, the importance of credibility and trust and the rise of “Experience” as a ranking signal including how the importance of this signal was magnified by the arrival of Generative AI tools. Plus, we’ll demonstrate these factors with some great case studies.

  • Page Experience. This section will cover what the role of Page Experience Signals are and how they impact your SEO going forward. And you’ll discover how Core Web Vitals fits in, why they matter, and the potential scope of their relevance.

Who should attend?

SEO practitioners with more than two years of experience will benefit the most from this Master Class.

Agenda

Here’s a look at what you’ll cover when. If you cannot attend live, on-demand access is included for free. (Exact times are subject to change.)

Wednesday, August 21

12:00pm - 1:45pm ET

What we learned from the Google Leak
The revolution underway
Q&A

1:45pm - 2:00pm ET

Break

2:00pm - 4:00pm ET

AI case studies
Operationalizing AI
Q&A

Thursday, August 22

12:00pm - 1:45pm ET

Advanced site architecture
Structured data
Q&A

1:45pm - 2:00pm ET

Break

2:00pm - 4:00pm ET

Content
Page experience
Q&A


Meet your Master Class instructor

Eric Enge has been speaking about digital marketing for more than a decade. He has keynoted many conferences including Pubcon Las Vegas, State of Search in Dallas, and Next10x. Eric is lead co-author of The Art of SEO, and also provides content to sites such as Search Engine Land, and Moz. Eric is particularly well known for the research that he publishes on key aspects of search. Eric was named 2018 Search Personality of the Year at the Drum Search Awards, 2016 Search Marketer of the Year (Male) at the Landys, and 2016 Search Personality of the Year at the US Search Awards, Stone Temple Consulting was also named Best Large SEO Agency of the Year at the US Search Awards. Eric is President of Pilot Holding and was previously the Founder and CEO of Stone Temple Consulting (STC), a 70+ person digital marketing agency based in Massachusetts, which Perficient acquired in July of 2018. Eric specializes in creating and implementing SEO strategy and driving the change required to make that possible.



Connect with SMX

Get the newsletter search marketers rely on.