Google penalises Spanish search marketing agency website
Webpositer, a Spanish search marketing company which has held prominent positions in Google’s results for some time – has had its site removed from the Google index. It is not the first time this has happened. Many search marketing sites which made false claims, offered unbelievable services and used tricky and less than legitimate techniques […]
Mirago opens its Swedish pay per click engine to advertisers
Mirago chose to launch its new advertising network in Sweden at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Stockholm where the first advertisers were formally signed up to advertise. Mirago is a UK-based pay per click search engine and has been building indexes throughout Europe over the last months. Advertisers targeting Sweden now have access to […]
More commotion around the .cat domain: It is not just a Spanish issue anymore
As expected, the latest decision to approve the .cat, cultural and linguistic sTLD (sponsored top-level domain) domain for Catalunya, has caused quite a bit of commotion coming from a number of angles. So after the first .cat story, it is only in due hand that a follow up story be written for those of you […]
ICANN approves the .cat (Catalan) domain. What’s next?
After some deliberation, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has finally approved the .cat domain, which although not always openly discussed, is causing a bit of a stir in other regions of Spain. The .cat domain—not to be confused with .ct, which would be a regional domain for Catalunya—is a new domain specifically […]
Berlin: Travelocity says travel consolidation will cut search engine revenues
Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. “We all know that travel is a major buyer for the search engines, consolidation would bring down the costs […]
Google Sitemaps now multilingual
The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are: Brazilian Portuguese Dutch French German Italian Korean Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Traditional Chinese Sitemap submisssion is not limited by the language of the site, as always. Source: Inside […]
25% of Belgian companies may switch to .EU domain
Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name. European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names – INQ7.net
MasterCard study takes the black eye out of Spanish online spending
Really, who said Spain is an e-commerce weakling? Sure, there are a number of studies pointing the index finger at Spain and claiming sluggish spending growth, online payment insecurity, and companies’ general reluctantly to spend on pricey ecommerce solutions. And obviously Spain is not playing with the heavyweights. But as covered in a previous story, […]
Launching Phase II of the .es domain name registration in Spain
If you flip back to an earlier story, when Multilingual Search covered the changes to the complicated .es domain name registration in Spain, you’ll know that according to Red.es the process was simplified to promote the regional registrations just a few months ago. Phase I for official organizations and government agencies will run into Phase […]
Online advertising sales drooping for loans in Western Europe
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July