Kristjan Mar Hauksson – Nordic eMarketing Technical issues can kill your website – missed opportunities. In many cases CMS is at the base of the problem. People are more likely to click on URLs that are READABLE (transparent and understandable) … Read More
Eyal Haik – WebCertain 45 companies out of 100 were examined – many of them have little global web presence. There was an inconsistent approach to implementation (for examp on the TLDs) Scorese ranged from 23 to 78% – a … Read More
Barry Lloyd gives an interesting presentation on doing business in Asia. All Asian countries are very very different Cultures are different and totally different from western customs Getting products in front of your target market is easier than any previous … Read More
Volker Ballueder – Web Certain PR to improve your organic ranking multilingual is growing fast with Africa at a fast growth rat. PR Services: E-newsletters blogs Forums News Feeds Video One way is to optimise your press release – products … Read More
John Brenne – Geolocalisation, hosting and domain issues Local links Ip address domains language telling the engine what makes your site regional ? your domain name sublevel domains country code all require local links you can identify the language with … Read More
The International Search Summit kicks off this morning at the British Library with he welcome of Andy Atkins Kruger, introducing speakers and above all the international market where English is no longer the dominant language. Geo.targeting and linguistics are introduced … Read More
On May 19th, Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Japan. During the interview, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook was different from mixi or MySpace where you can connect with anyone, and believed that they can obtain a good … Read More
Google has added ten new languages to its translation service bringing the total to 23, Google also added a “detect language” option for those that need. The languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish. … Read More
Yahoo Japan’s SiteExplorer tool is now available for webmasters. Below are some of the functions of the tool: – Check the web pages indexed in YST by specifying URL or domain. – Check when the pages are crawled and which … Read More
comScore’s top Japanese property ranking for March 2008 is out. While there’s no changes in ranking for the past several months, I’d like to point out that the gap between the #1 site (Yahoo) and #2 site (Google) is getting … Read More
As everyone knows Microsoft had given up Yahoo (for now, I think). In Brazil that means nothing, because here Yahoo and Microsoft are still operating together, as during the early days of Overture. Therefore, the “Search duopoly” mentioned by Danny … Read More
Banca d’Italia has published recent statistics on home and corporate online banking usage in Italy. The report shows … … Read More
According to the research by Xlisting (excite is their major share holder), 55.6% of pages ranking within top 10 in Yahoo search results are owned by the sites listed in Xlinsting’s categories. They also says that 43% of Google top … Read More
Google has announced it’s first quarter financial results in 2008 showing a 42% increase in turnover (revenues) from the same quarter in 2007. In the same timescale, click volumes have increased by a mere 20% showing the value per click … Read More
According to goo Research’s report, 85% of teenagers and preteens participated in the survey said that they know (and use) video sharing sites. It shows that YouTube (57%) is the most popular video sharing site followed by NicoNicoDouga (13%). “Listening … Read More
