Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the US and many offices around the country will be closed for a long weekend. We’re definitely looking forward to this mini-break, but before we start stuffing ourselves, here are some reminders about the cultural awareness necessary for international SEO.
• Different holidays and celebrations. You’re French website’s traffic is just [...]

Thanks to some helpful bloggers, there are recaps of the SMX London conference that took place last week.  A few of the sessions were about international SEO and the European markets.  Let’s take a quick look at what was presented:

From “The Global Search Universe:”
The top search languages are:

English
Chinese
Spanish
Japanese
French
German
Arabic
Portugese
Korean
Italian

And the top search engines are:

Google
Yahoo!
Baidu (China)
MSN
NHN (Korea)

(With [...]

International site design.  How do you do it?  Can you have everything on one site and domain, with multiple subdomains and subdirectories?  Or do you create multiple individual websites?  Is it possible to blend these ideas?  Can it be done easily?  Will I tear my hair out in the process?
These are all very important questions, [...]

Recently, a new report was released on the numbers of small businesses in the US using social marketing.  Access Markets International (AMI) says that 5% of small business, or 300,000, are using social websites and strategies to promote their names, brands, and services.  They expect that in the next 12 months, that number will rise [...]