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Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International and European Site Optimization

Andy Atkins-Krüger

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Best in class performance– Search-trained native speakers

– Over 10 years experience

– Advanced SEO & SEM strategies

Low agency fees– 32 languages in one hub

– Low operational overhead

– Smart processes

Synchronised global search

Outstanding ROI 120 clients

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Here’s our World Trip!

The opportunity

Search engine forces

International SEO tips

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

World IP Distribution – Ex. US

Source:domaintools.com

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Country Domain Distribution

Source: John Yunker – Byte Level Research

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Unique Users – 15 European Countries

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Source: comScore qSearch March 2008

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

The Opposing Forces

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

The Opposing ForcesHello – I’m ‘United

Googledom’I reign supreme in the

Americas and Western Europe

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

The Opposing Forces

I’m loads-a-moneysoft and I’m going to buy my way in –

soon....promise

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

The Opposing ForcesI’m Yafoon – I used to be a US search engine but I’m

now most important in Japan and Korea

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

The Opposing Forces

Hello from ‘Slavex’ – I represent several slavic engines with combined

power in Eastern Europe

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

The Opposing Forces

Watch out Googledom – we’re ‘Baidukhan’ – and

we’re a BIG threat..

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

The Opposing Forces

And we’re the local rebels everywhere you’re all trying

to wipe out...

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Killer Tip 1Large regional search engines are often cheaper per click than Google – but still offer volume!

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Top 10 tips in ascending order!10

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Use UTF-8

character encoding10

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

UTF-8 (Unicode)Backwardly compatible with Ascii

Encodes up to four-byte characters

Copes with any language from Chinese to Arabic with diacritics – over 100,000 individual characters

“We have long used Unicode as the internal format for all the text we search: any other encoding is first converted to Unicode for processing”

Mark Davis, Senior International Software Architect

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Don’t ‘translate’ metatags and page titles9

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Do not translate OR

localise your keywords

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Fussballschuhe

voetbal schoen

football boots

scarpe da calcio

botas de fútbol

футбольная обувь

Plurals

Prepositions

Accents

Alternate spellings

Disaggregation

Inflection

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Linguistics Affects Algos

Yandex search algorithm is fully tailored to Russian language:

«ИЗВЕРГАТЬ» ( “TO ERUPT”) изверг, извергав, извергавшаго, извергавшагося, извергавшая, извергавшаяся, извергавшего, извергавшегося, извергавшее, извергавшееся,

извергавшей, извергавшейся, извергавшем, извергавшемся, извергавшему, извергавшемуся, извергавшею, извергавшеюся, извергавши, извергавшие, извергавшиеся, извергавший, извергавшийся, извергавшим, извергавшими, извергавшимися, извергавшимся, извергавших, извергавшихся, извергавшия, извергавшияся, извергавшую, извергавшуюся, извергаем, извергаема, извергаемаго, извергаемая, извергаемо, извергаемого, извергаемое, извергаемой, извергаемом, извергаемому, извергаемою, извергаемую, извергаемы, извергаемые, извергаемый, извергаемым, извергаемыми, извергаемых, извергаемыя, извергает, извергаете, извергается, извергаешь, извергай, извергайте, извергал, извергала, извергалась, извергали, извергались, извергало, извергалось, извергался, извергать, извергаться, извергаю, извергают, извергаются, извергающаго, извергающагося, извергающая, извергающаяся, извергающего, извергающегося, извергающее, извергающееся, извергающей, извергающейся, извергающем, извергающемся, извергающему, извергающемуся, извергающею, извергающеюся, извергающие, извергающиеся, извергающий, извергающийся, извергающим, извергающими, извергающимися, извергающимся, извергающих, извергающихся, извергающия, извергающияся, извергающую, извергающуюся, извергая, извергла, извергли, извергло, извергнем, извергнет, извергнете, извергнешь, извергни, извергните, извергну, извергнув, извергнувшаго, извергнувшая, извергнувшего, извергнувшее, извергнувшей, извергнувшем, извергнувшему, извергнувшею, извергнувши, извергнувшие, извергнувший, извергнувшим, извергнувшими, извергнувших, извергнувшия, извергнувшую, извергнул, извергнут, извергнута, извергнутаго, извергнутая, извергнуто, извергнутого, извергнутое, извергнутой, извергнутом, извергнутому, извергнутою, извергнутую, извергнуты, извергнутые, извергнутый, извергнутым, извергнутыми, извергнутых, извергнутыя, извергнуть, извергшаго, извергшая, извергшего, извергшее, извергшей, извергшем, извергшему, извергшею, извергши, извергшие, извергший, извергшим, извергшими, извергших, извергшия, извергшую

Yandex search results will include all 166 grammar forms of this word

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Adopt a global PR strategy8

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Online PR – 25 languages

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Online PR – 25 languages

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Manage 301s7

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

301s Sort out the PlumbingTypical global site has:• 00s of links going to

“Page Not Found”• Domains around the

globe incorrectly set• Several meta-refreshes

And is still looking for links!

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Keyword URLs6

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Source local links5

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Local links

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Local Links

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Local Links

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

‘Polishing machines’ 研磨抛光机设备

1st

3rd

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Use a smart Geo-selector4

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Smart Geo-Selector

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Smart Geo-Selector

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Smart Geo-Selector

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Expert keyword research3

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

What do you do if there’s no direct translation?

“City breaks” has no direct equivalent in most European languages

“30% off” doesn’t work in Polish

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Input methods impact search

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

ccTLDs or local hosting2

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Domain Targeting

• www.yourdomain.de

• de.yourdomain.com

• de.otherdomain.com

• www.yourdomain.com/de/

NeedLocalLinks Need

LocalLinks

NeedLocalLinks

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

International SEO Tips

Language & content presentation1

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Killer Tip 2Manage duplication of content between SAME language sites

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Language content & presentation

Spidering

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Language content & presentation

Spidering

Language detection

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Language content & presentation

Spidering

Language detection

Language dependent processes

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Language content & presentation

Spidering

Language detection

Language dependent processes

Index & query

response

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Language detection

Defined by Character sets

Confused by character sets

Romanian English - Indonesian – Malay – Swahili

German Danish – Norwegian

Swedish Bosnian – Croatian

Turkish Sanskrit – Hindi – Marathi – Kashmiri – …

Thai Arabic – Kurdish – Punjabi – Pashto – Urdu ….

Hebrew Mandarin – Cantonese – Japanese

Icelandic Russian – Bulgarian – Ukrainian

Greek Finnish - Estonian

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Language detection

Language Defining common word patterns

Polish Consonant clusters - "rz", "sz" , "cz", "prz", "trz"

English Frequent words – an, in, on, the, that, is, are

Simplified chinese ‘Common radicals’ distinguish from traditional

Czech To distinguish from Slovak: does not use ä, ľ, ĺ, ŕ, ô

Latvian Does not have letters q, w, x, y

Dutch Letter sequences ij, ei

Turkish Frequent words – bir, bu, fakat, oldu, şu

Italian Almost every word ends in a vowel

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Killer Tip 3

Synchronisation is essential to success!

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Synchronised global search

andy@webcertain.com

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

Synchronised global search

andy@webcertain.com

Andy Atkins-Krüger - CEO WebCertain - International SEO – Pubcon 08

1 2 3 4 5 6 hours

•Paris

•Vienna

•New York

•Dubai

•Damascus

•Cairo

•Istanbul

•Moscow

•Madrid

•Berlin

•Amsterdam

•Budapest

•Marrakech

•Stockholm

•Rome

•Athens•Baghdad

•Brussels

•Copenhagen

•Algiers

•Belgrade

•Munich•Sofia

•Reykjavik

•Tehran

•Tel Aviv

•Beirut•Dakar

•Kiev

•Boston

Our Backyard

•Mecca