The number of web users in Latin America continues to grow yearly at an impressive rate. Social media has proved especially popular among latinos with Argentina, Brazil and Mexico joining the global top ten social consumers in under two years. Many of OBAN's clients have identified the emerging Latin American economies as a great target for online expansion and to do so require international seo services. In this article OBAN provides an overview on how this cornerstone of SEM is consumed in Latin America and what businesses can do to exploit it.

This autumn five of the largest Internet companies are going to start recruitment drives in Russia. Inside information about the developments appeared on Facebook on the page of Russian PR agency Pruffi earlier this month. PayPal, eBay, LinkedIn, Facebook and Foursquare are all companies eyeing up an expansion into the Russian marketplace with others following close behind.

Google's Panda update has now launched around the world in all but three languages. Here's a look at some new statistics showing which websites in Germany, France, and Austria were hit and rewarded as a result of the expanded Panda rollout and how things have changed in the Austrian, French and German SEO environment.

For any native English speaker, Japanese is one of the most difficult languages to learn and if you want to expand your market share by doing Japanese SEO or PPC, this can be a huge challenge.

Japanese consists of 3 types of characters; "Hiragana", "Katakana" and "Kanji". Depending on certain keywords or phrases, certain types of characters are used which makes Japanese SEO much more complex than languages that use the Latin alphabet.