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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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, … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
New data from TNS – What are the most popular web sites in Israel? … Read More
Last week, Israeli Google CEO, Mr. Meir Brand, announced that the AdSense features are finally supported for Hebrew advertisers and publishers. The back office translated interface is a bit clumsy, but still better then nothing. Till this statement, many Hebrew … Read More
Walla.co.il, Israel’s biggest internet portal and search engine until 2005 sent a notice to all its advertisers, announcing a shift from PPI (pay-per-inclusion at a fixed price) to pay-per-click. The change will be implemented starting 1 January 2007. Walla, a … Read More
Media research firm Zenithoptimedia reports that 8 countries will dedicate more than 10% of their budgets to online marketing by 2008. Two countries will already cross that barrier this year – the UK adn Sweden – interestingly not the US. … Read More
Israel court of law, in a new verdict allows an Israeli clothes company to use its competitor name for AdWords searches conducted via google.co.il. This is the first Israeli case in which the judge rules in favour of the sued … Read More
