Facebook has announced the opening of an office in Hyderabad in southern India to support the roll out of Facebook to the large India-based population. Already Facebook has 8 million users in India. The company is now looking to recruit … Read More
Bryan Eisenberg certainly thinks that ‘Conversion Optimisation’ is the best thing since sliced bread. In fact he’s just left his company to focus on being a marketing speaker covering this ‘critical’ aspect of marketing and recently demonstrated his thinking through … Read More
Whenever the topic of “international SEO” is discussed, one of the very first subjects people want to learn and talk about is which domains to use and how to structure a website at the very top level. In other words, … Read More
It is interesting to note that, according to Google, there are monthly 12,100 searches for the phrase “Website Translation” and only 1,000 for “International SEO”. Of course, there are other phrases of importance such as “multilingual SEO” but that’s even … Read More
Everyone in the online world depends on having good data in some way or other. Until ComScore rolled out qSearch in 150 countries, there was very little comparable data available to compare activities in different countries. Frequently, people would ask … Read More
Chinese war guru, Sun Tzu, who wrote the “Art of War” would have been shaking his head in dismay at the launch of Google Buzz earlier this week. Whilst Wall Street was rubbing its hands in glee at the prospect … Read More
Next week is the Search Engine Strategies London conference and expo at the Business Design Centre in Islington, which I will be participating in for roughly the fifth or sixth time – in fact I cannot quite remember which one … Read More
Hurrah, the UK economy is out of recession. Boo, the UK economy is recovering so weakly from the global recession that it may be some time before things truly start to get better. Conclusion? Many experts say that Britain – … Read More
When Google said it was adding “real time” search to its platform, most saw this as a logical addition which made sense. Few recognised the pandora’s box which was about to open enabling ‘reputation management’ to move centrestage giving reputation … Read More
Because of what I do – specialising in international and multilingual search that is – for years people have been explaining to me the importance of the ‘semantic web’ and that I should be getting involved. Many thought it had … Read More
Next week I will be speaking at the Search Engine Strategies Chicago panel, “New Exporters: How Search Marketing Can Be Used to Build Overseas Trade” panel at the Search Engine Strategies conference at the Hilton hotel in Chicago. This is … Read More
German flag-carrier Lufthansa has announced that it is to offer full web access via a wifi system and a satellite connection for all passengers in all flights and classes during the coming year. This will put pressure on more competitors … Read More
The AT Institute has just published a report at Xitimonitor showing that on average 53% of visits to UK websites have been generated by online marketing campaigns. The UK is followed by Spain 45%, Germany 40% and then just 29% … Read More
Twitter announced via its blog that it is adding support for French, Italian, German and Spanish to the languages supported by its interface. Until now the system has only been available in English and Japanese. In its blog post it … Read More
WebCertain, where I work, is often classified as being in the North East of England and though it’s actually in Yorkshire, the business does have clients in the North East. Today, the UK’s Telegraph is touting a story entitled “People … Read More
