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Global Site Infrastructure Plan For SEO & Usability. Targeting the world with a website is a huge opportunity for today’s marketers — but very few businesses start out with that goal.

Global Site Infrastructure Plan For SEO & Usability

The vast majority target a particular nation first, prove the business model, grow their business’ success, and then consider rolling out globally. What this actually means is that most Web projects which target international customers started out as domestic projects which have since been “converted.” These multinational websites were usually conceived and built for a domestic audience, then adapted in some way for new customers speaking different languages, in different parts of the world, with different issues. It’s not difficult to see why many such projects run into trouble. Plan Infrastructure As Early In The Process As Possible There are two possible approaches which may help avoid the challenges that “conversion” of a website may cause.

Analysing Your Strategic Plan Has A Significant Impact On Infrastructure. Chinese Search Engines Market Share. The Global SEO & Content Marketing Landscape. Search unifies people across the globe, and search engines are the catalyst for making that connection.

The Global SEO & Content Marketing Landscape

For global brands, optimizing for different search engines and different cultures increases awareness, visibility, traffic and conversions. Global SEO and content marketing are more important than ever! The 2013 year saw search engine heroes and underdogs fight for their share of market across the globe.

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Baidu Paid & Organic Search Starter Guide. With more than 500 million Internet users, China is by far the world’s largest online market.

Baidu Paid & Organic Search Starter Guide

Their largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, has more than 407 million users, with around 78 percent share of the total Chinese search users. Since being founded in 2000, the company has shown remarkable growth and is consistently highly profitable. How to Create a Successful Global PPC Campaign. Many businesses have recognized the importance and value of localization.

How to Create a Successful Global PPC Campaign

The Internet offers unparalleled opportunities to break into new markets, but traditional SEO through localization techniques can be slow to yield conversions. Pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns can offer a quick and cost-effective way to break into new markets and increase brand awareness at the same time. Target Your Markets.

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5 Reasons Why People Hate International Search Marketing. Personally, I love international search marketing and am very passionate about it.

5 Reasons Why People Hate International Search Marketing

Don’t even bring it up around me unless you're prepared to listen to me chat about it for the next 20 hours straight. When an English person asks a non-English person, “how are you?” Survival Guide to Multilingual SEO. On-Page Optimization for Multilingual Sites. On-page optimization – or everything that can be done to boost your ranking on and within the web page itself – isn't the only step in your multilingual SEO campaign, but it’s a crucial one.

On-Page Optimization for Multilingual Sites

By concentrating a little extra effort in the following areas, you’ll help give your site the edge over the competition. Keywords Still Count There used to be a great deal of debate in SEO circles on the subject of keyword density. These days choosing the right keywords is still hugely important, but repetition is less so. You certainly want the most effective long- and short-tail keywords. SEO Your Website For Foreign Languages in Your Domestic Market. Last week here at Search Engine Watch, Dave Davies raised some key points about strategies for optimizing your website for English-speaking foreign markets, such as (for U.S. companies) Canada or the UK.

SEO Your Website For Foreign Languages in Your Domestic Market

But there are also huge – and largely untapped – possibilities represented by marketing to native speakers of languages other than English in majority English-speaking countries, such as Spanish speakers in the U.S., or Polish speakers in the UK. It’s established wisdom that people prefer to shop online in their own native language. The 2006 Common Sense Advisory ‘Can’t Read, Won’t Buy’ found 85 percent of online shoppers needed access to information in their native language before making a purchase, while a 2011 EU survey found that 90 percent of Europeans prefer browsing the web in their first language. However, there’s a huge opportunity within domestic markets to target native speakers of foreign languages.

Less Competition Tricks of the Trade Proven Success. International SEO: 22 tools and one infographic to help improve your strategy. International SEO is a complex challenge for digital marketers due to the intricacies of local languages and customs.

International SEO: 22 tools and one infographic to help improve your strategy

Unfortunately it's not enough to assume that UK companies can expand into Latin America simply by translating their content into Spanish and Portuguese. Luckily there are some free online tools available to make the task slightly simpler and automate some parts of the process. At Distilled's Searchlove conference earlier this week WooRank's Aleyda Solis gave an excellent overview of some of the main challenges involved in implementing an effective commerce strategy.

The full run through is available on Slideshare, but here is a compilation of the tools that Solis recommended... 40+ Tools to Advance Your International SEO Process. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

40+ Tools to Advance Your International SEO Process

One of the most frequent questions I get is about the tools that I use for international SEO, and although I included most of them in my international SEO presentation at MozCon, since I didn't had the time to focus on them, I would like to share how I use them to support my international SEO activities. There are tools to support every part of your journey, including identifying the potential, targeting an international audience, optimizing and promoting the websites, earning international popularity, and measuring and achieving benefit with the international SEO process. Let's get started! Your initial international search status Identify your initial international search visibility, from the volume and trends of queries to pages' impressions, clicks, and the CTR you get per country.

The International SEO Checklist. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

The International SEO Checklist

In less than two weeks I will have the pleasure to speak at MozCon about international SEO, in a session called "International SEO and the Future of your ROI. " Before I do, I wanted to compile a checklist of the most fundamental aspects to consider when developing an international SEO process — something to which we can quickly refer that can facilitate our everyday work, and something that would also be easy to digest for our clients at some point. As a result, I've created this International SEO Checklist, with a step-by-step guide to everything from assessing the international SEO potential to targeting our international audience and the development of an internationally targeted site: I've also uploaded a higher resolution version of the checklist image, in case you want to download and print it.

5 Dos and Don'ts of International SEO. SEO Without Borders: A Guide to International SEO. 1. Domain Name2. Structure2.1 Domain Directories2.2 Separate ccTLDs2.3 Separate Subdomains3. Translation3.1 Professional Translation3.2 Google Translate4. Markup5. Keyword Research6.