Is Your Site Ready to Go Global? 5 Things to Consider
I’ve been hearing a lot of talk recently about International SEO or Multilingual SEO. It seems people are understanding the value of properly targeting markets. I’ve experienced first hand how some multinational companies that try to skimp when it comes to properly localizing their websites and then they wonder why it isn’t successful in the […]
Localize Your Videos and Make Them SEO Friendly
Videos are great ways to bring traffic to your site and engage your visitors. Check out this video for a tool to create subtitles that can be translated automatically with Google Translate (Localization). Plus the transcript will also be picked up by Google and other search engines making the video SEO friendly. It’s a win […]
Will SEO Be Around in 5 Years? Matt Cutts Says “Yes”
With the new launch of Google Instant there’s been a lot of talk about how it is going to kill SEO, or the need and ability for SEO professionals to effectively optimize websites so that they rank in Google’s SERPS (search engine results). Some people are going as far to say it is an SEO […]
Google Tips for International SEO and Websites with Multiple Languages
Many international companies with multi-lingual sites use machine translation such as Google Translate to translate their content. Google has recently warned against doing this. Google’s own John Mu commented in the Google Webmaster Central forums: I just want to add a word of warning here — using automated translation tools to directly create content for […]
SEO Tip: Always Use Unique Titles for Each Page on Your Website
So often I come across websites that use the same page title for all their pages. This is usually either the fault of a lazy designer or someone that just doesn’t understand the importance of unique page titles. Without unique titles the search engine spiders that crawl your website will have less of a chance […]
