Digital marketing in the Middle East and Africa in 2024
If you are an international digital marketer with experience targeting the Middle Eastern and African market, then you will know that you cannot treat the vast region of “the Middle East and Africa” as one singular entity. As well as the obvious differences in language between countries, there are also significant variations between countries’ digital […]
5 countries with the biggest growth in internet penetration in 2023
When businesses think about expanding internationally, they tend to focus on countries such as the US, the UK, Germany and Japan. These markets are already very mature, wealthy and have very high levels of internet penetration. It can be easy to only focus on this kind of market, but by doing that, you could be […]
Israeli Exposure Data – Google Crosses 90% Reach for the First Time, youtube placed 5th
TGI/Teleseker published their February data for the Israeli Internet market, For the first time, The domination of Google within the Israeli net crosses 90 percent of weekly exposure among surfers aged 13+. Top 10 Table: SITE 07-Dec 08-Jan 08-Feb Google.co.il […]
Google opens a webmaster help group in Hebrew
Google announced today that they’ve opened a new Webmaster Help Group in Hebrew I got this email from Google representative: Hey all, Today we launched our Webmaster Help Group in Hebrew. Do you want to know more about Google’s Crawling, Indexing, Ranking, Sitemaps, Webmaster Tools or are you just a curious Webmaster? Go to our […]
Israeli search firms SortFix and Omgili simplify the experience, review products
From Orli Yakuel’s Excellent(!) tech blog, two reviews of two Israeli search companies – SortFix and Omgili : Israel based SortFix offers a unique and fun way to search terms on the Web that currently works with Google,Yahoo! Or Dmoz search…The unique interface allows you to play with the suggested keywords, and create your own […]
SMX Israel becomes SphinnCon Israel. February 2008.
We may have to wait till 2009 for an Israeli SMX conference but the good news from Danny and the 3rd door media people is the announcement of the new SphinnCon: “a new networking event series designed for Sphinners and anyone interested in internet marketing” The first Sphinncon event will take place in Israel, February […]
Google Israel CEO – we will not censor anti-semitic sites
In an Hertzliya convention held by the Anti-Defamation League, Meir Brand, Google Israel CEO says: “Google cannot decide which sites will be published on the world wide web, We obey to the law and as long as there isn’t a specific law regarding specific sites we will keep those sites in Google’s index”
An SMX/Sphinn event in Israel?
Barry from SEroundtable postes in his personal blog about a possible SEO event in Israel, (and maybe I for once will need no hotel nor flights to arrange…) From Barry’s post: I can probably get a sponsor with the help of Third Door Media coordinating the event under an SMX or Sphinn thing. It is […]
Web2.0Sport – Fans to Coach Team Via the Web
LinkBait goes to 2nd grade – Israeli web2sport community purchased a soccer team and from now on all professional decisions aren’t made by a coach, the fans will decide. From Reuters: Most of our surfers like the idea that they can decide what the team will do: who will be in the first 11, what […]
Google webmaster tools starts to think international
At least two major new features are arriving in Google’s webmaster tools console according to information from the SES San Jose conference and the official Google webmaster tools blog. The latter has announced support for the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) and a series of further enhancements are expected. IDNA enables webmasters to use […]