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Oct25

INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL FORUM - 21st November London

Posted in: Blogs, October 2011

YOU are invited to our inaugural IDF Event!

Our Mission is to connect companies and experts who want to succeed in international digital marketing but on a local market level.

What: The international Digital Forum
Where: IAB Address: 14 Macklin Street, London, WC2B 5NF
When: 21st November 2011, 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

* Lunch and Refreshments will be provided

Oct10

New Metrics Influencing Quality Score in Google Pay Per-Click Campaigns

Posted in: Blogs, October 2011

This link was sent to me recently by an SEO contact of mine.

The big three influencing factors in the Google quality score calculation have always been Landing Page Quality, Keyword Relevance (to an adgroups ad's, and matching the keyword / ads to the search term), and Keyword / Display URL / Account CTR. It has long been supposed that CTR was by far the most dominant factor, but Google has recently announced that they are to be placing increased weight on Landing Page Quality, and Keyword Relevance.

Oct07

Info-graphic: A World without Boundaries

Posted in: Blogs, October 2011

A Map Visualising Global Facebook Friendships

I came across this rather beautiful info-graphic recently and thought I’d share it with anybody who hasn’t seen it yet. The work of Facebook intern Paul Butler - this map visualises the connections between Facebook friends across the world. Here’s what Paul had to say on his masterpiece:

“I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them.”

I thought I’d take a look at it and see what information I could glean as an International SEO and Social professional.

Sep28

Mio Case Study 2: Mio Basket Pages

Posted in: Blogs, September 2011

More on our Mio case study

GlobalMaxer is the leading platform for Cultural MVT and International Conversions. Developed and owned by Oban Multilingual, GlobalMaxer is the only Conversion tool specifically built for use with cross-national or multilingual MVT or AB Testing. This is an explanation on how it helped out our client's shopping cart system.

Sep27

Fabulous but sometimes Forgotten Google Features

Posted in: Blogs, September 2011

Interesting and useful google tools

It is all too easy to become obsessed with making sure your homepage or target pages are ranking highly in Google organic search, but there are some other really simple ways to make your site discoverable.  This is particularly valuable if you are running multiple sites in different languages.

We've covered a few of Google's search options for you to sink your teeth into.

Sep19

Restore deep link URLs into shallow link URLs with Excel

Posted in: Blogs, September 2011

This is a piece of admin annoyance that plagues most of us who deal with database upon database for link building campaigns.

Picture yourself working on a link building campaign: let's pretend it is a UK-only campaign where a client only wants links from strictly UK websites – meaning, they should either:

1. Be hosted in the UK
2. Have a .uk domain
3. Have content that indicates a UK readership