Amplify Your Digital Marketing: Lessons From 10+ Case Studies By Eric Enge

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Lessons From 10+ Case Studies

Time to AMP-lifyYour Digital Marketing

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Lessons From 10+ Case Studies

Time to AMP-lifyYour Digital Marketing

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ERIC ENGE, CEOSTONE TEMPLE CONSULTING

2016 Landy’s Search Marketer of the Year2016 US Search Awards Search Personality of the Year

Eric’s Studies Have Been Covered In:

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New Study Released on

October 9, 2017

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Very Brief AMP Background

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The AMP News Carousel is a

Huge UI Change in the

Mobile Environment

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Profile #1 – Media Site Included in the News Carousel

Major media site

Custom Implementation, took 4 Weeks

Converted 90+% of pages (all article pages)

They are in Google News, and as a result get into the News Carousel

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But…

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Company Load Time Change / Results Impact

0.1 second increase1% decrease in sales

$1.3B / year

1 second decrease2% increase in conversions

$274M / year

0.4 second decrease9% increase in traffic

600M visitors per month

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Source: 9to5Google.com

Poll Asking if Users Look for the AMP Symbol

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4 AMP Myths

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Myth 1

AMP Only Benefits

News Sites

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Profile #2 – Real Estate Site

Real estate listings site

Custom Implementation

Converted all their Google indexed

pages

Converted in less than 3 weeks with

2 engineers

Implemented Progressive Web

App for pages after the landing page

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Profile #2 – Real Estate Site AMP Metrics

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Myth 1 Busted!

AMP Only Benefits

News Sites

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Sidebar 1: How Does a Progressive Web App

Help Speed?

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• Prefetches content.

• Increases online performance by reducing network requests for certain assets.

• Allows website to function offline.

The Key is Service Workers

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Myth 2

AMP can’t be Used for

E-commerce Sites

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Profile #3 – E-Commerce Site

Major E-Commerce Site

Custom implementation

Converted all their category pages plus home page (85-90% of organic traffic)

2 to 3 weeks to implement

Implemented Progressive Web App for pages after the landing page

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Landing Page Load Time

Reduced by 65%

Bounce Rate Reduced by 40%

Mobile Revenue Increasing

Profile #3 – E-Commerce Site: The Results

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“Ebay has invested heavily in AMP, and remains fully committed to it. (We are) focused on rolling AMP out to more of our site, and we know that speeding up pages helps improve the customer experience leading to better e-commerce conversion.”

Pete Dainty, Ebay, October 6, 2017

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Myth 2 Busted!

AMP can’t be Used for

E-commerce Sites

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Myth 3

Build it and They Will Come

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Profile #4 – Lead Gen Site with Blog Content

Wordpresssite

Started with AMP Automatic Plugin

Switched to AMP for Wordpress

Converted 61% of pages

3 to 4 weeks to implement

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Profile #4 – How Did the AMP Pages Perform?

Page TypePages / Session

Session Time Bounce Rate

Non-AMP 1.27 52.78 86.7%

AMP 1.04 17.47 95.7%

% Increase 82% 33% 110%

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Profile #4 – Why Did the AMP Pages Underperform?(Broken Hamburger Menu –

No Call to Action)

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Profile #4 – Improvements: Fixed Hamburger Menu,

Added Clear CTA

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Profile #4 – Did Our Improvements Help (Time on Site)?

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Myth 3 Busted!

Build it and They Will Come

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Profile #4 – Did Our Improvements Help?

But They Also Have a Tracking Problem

Pages / Session Session Time Bounce Rate

Non-AMP 1.27 52.78 86.7%

AMP 1.08 32.99 93.9%

% Increase 85% 63% 108%

Before Improvements

82% 33% 110%

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Sidebar 2: What is the Analytics Problem?

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Tracking Users in AMP

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AMP Analytics– What are the Resulting Problems

Will show Pages Per Session as very close to 1.0

Bounce Rate will be very high (greater than 90%)

Session Time will be very short

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The Session Stitching Solution

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Myth #4

AMP Sites are Stripped

Down

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Profile #5: Standard Mobile Page for Stone

Temple Site

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Mobile Responsive PageAMP Plugin Page (AMP

Automatic Plugin)

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Profile #5: Stone Temple AMP Metrics

ALL PAGES SessionsBounce Rate

Pages / Session

Avg. Session Duration (Secs.)

AMP 2,352 94.26% 1.07 22.36

MOB GOOG 3,819 85.60% 1.32 55.00

DSK GOOG 20,640 77.38% 1.43 76.00

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Mobile Responsive Page Hand Crafted AMP Page

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Myth 4 Busted!

AMP Sites are Stripped

Down

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Keys to Success

1 •Embrace AMP’s Goals

2•Follow Through

to a Complete Implementation

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New Study Released on

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Eric Engeeenge@stonetemple.com@stonetemple+Eric Enge

ThankYou!

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