Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the International Search Summit in Munich. One of the sessions was held by Managing Director of Yandex Europe, Bernard Lukey, who provided insights into the online Russian marketplace and, needless to … Read More
Social Media Examiner recently released its 4th annual Social Media Marketing Report. The 42-page report sets out to uncover the “who, what, where, when and why” of social media marketing based on more than 3,800 responses from marketers across different … Read More
In my last post here on Multilingual Search I listed 10 brief takeaways from ISS Munich. At the summit, Senior Strategy Consultant at the GlobalWebIndex, Brett Petersen, presented some of the key findings from the company’s sixth wave of research … Read More
Last week’s International Search Summit in Munich provided a wide range of in-depth quality sessions on international SEO, PPC and social media. Many of the recent developments and challenges that the international SEO community is currently facing were addressed at … Read More
There’s no doubt that the search engine market is growing at a rapid rate around the globe as more and more people come online. comScore reports that more than 88 per cent of Internet users are outside the US. Finally … Read More
Google has revised the advice it is giving to owners of international websites with regard to using canonicals and hreflang tags. Just a month ago, the International Search Summit in San Jose was advised by the Google team on an … Read More
Yesterday’s standing room only international SEO session at SMX Munich featured Johannes Müller of Google Zurich and one of Google’s most popular spokespeople, known in the forums as “johnmu.” In English, he typically goes under the name “John” so I’ll … Read More
Geo-targeting is always a popular subject at International Search Summit events – its importance for multilingual websites cannot be disputed yet achieving effective geo-targeting across multiple locales and languages proves a challenge for many. Google’s hreflang markup has been developed … Read More
The survey on the international impact of Google Places can be filled out here. In February, Google sent out a list of 40 algorithm updates – a new record for the company’s monthly series on search quality. While much immediate … Read More
In a press release earlier today, Yandex announced that it now offers search refiners, helping users to instantly find the results they are looking for as they type in a query. This is a response to unspecified queries, which currently … Read More
Leading technology-focused research and consulting firm, Forrester, recently released a report on European e-commerce and its future impact across 17 major European markets. Overall, online European retail sales are forecast to grow 12.2% annually, reaching a total value of 230.4 … Read More
Yandex has this week announced it is opening a sales office in Lucerne, Switzerland, which will be headed up by Bernard Lukey, the former CEO of Russian online store OZON.ru and aims to better serve Yandex’s rapidly growing European client … Read More
Spain remains the European country with the highest unemployment rate, currently standing at 22.9 percent. Often, marketing budgets stand first in line to get squeezed whenever companies are facing tough times, but despite deep economic crisis in Spain, online ad … Read More
A new survey done by two companies in Cyprus, Evresis and Immarcoms, called I Report 2012 (page in greek) reveals that people in Cyprus indeed love the Internet.
Tablets are rapidly gaining popularity around the globe, but does user behaviour differ significantly from that of PCs and smartphones? Last week, Russian search giant, Yandex, released a short report on the user patterns of Russian iPad users. Findings showed … Read More
