Since the Launch of Google plus its viral growth has slowed somewhat over the past few days.

However, more than a billion people worldwide use Google products, including its top rated search engine, YouTube, and Blogger. Chairman Eric Schmidt says the vision is to integrate Circles and sharing with all the other Google properties. When that happens, you will likely see millions of people joining Google+ every day for some period of time

Anybody keeping an eye on the news will be aware of Rupert Murdoch's impending catastrophe. More and more potential buyers renounced their bid for MySpace and left the negotiations altogether. Shortly before Murdoch's self set deadline, the offers for the social network MySpace were way below the 100 million dollar mark.

To Murdoch's frustration, last Thursday, the network that was once valued at 580 million dollars changed hands for just 35 million dollars.

The descent of MySpace is just another example of the untouchable power of Facebook, the Goliath of social networking world. This social network-hierarchy had changed as far back as 2007, but the question is...

Read our SEO top tips here. Find out how localisation, translation and socialising can effect your marketing strategies internationally. 

1.Localisation. First and foremost, search engines from Google, through to Baidu in China, to Yandex in Russia, prefer localisation. In order to do well in competitive markets you need to analyse both, your local and global competition in each target market. For example, some search engines prefer that sites are hosted locally, with country-specific domain names.

No, this is not the title of a new 10 penny novel. It is the current dilemma of Estonia’s Government. Who could have seen coming that online gambling will ever be a necessity for any countries’ economy?

Well, for Estonia this is a reality. Just as they’ve prepared to take the EURO on as their currency, the smallest of Baltic countries was hit by the GFC. Estonia’s economy has dropped by 36% and therefore they’ve lost their eligibility for the Euro which requires that any participating countries’ public finances are in good shape and the exchange rate and prices are stable.

Latest reports revealed that Facebook and the Chinese search company "Baidu" are considering a deal for a new social Network in China.

As of March 31st 2011, Facebook had as many as 664 million subscribers worldwide, meaning that one third of worldwide internet users are signed up to Facebook.

The creation of the new Chinese networking platform would mean another big step in Facebook's attempt to conquer the world.

International SEO can be complex at the best of times. Targeting an unfamiliar market can raise all kinds of obstacles – language barriers, cultural differences and religious differences to name but a few. So what happens when a bilingual demographic gets thrown into the mix? In many parts of the world different cultures are coming together to form a substantial percentage of a nation's population. Britain has a large Asian population (as does Canada), Spain has a large British population, and Italy has a large Eastern European population. With such a merging of nationalities cross cultural influences are inevitable and this can blur the lines when it comes to online marketing.