International SEO campaigns: dialect is key

Published: October 1st, 2009 by Last Click News

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If you want a business that has no boundaries, you should bank on the internet. And if you want a successful business with no boundaries, then you’ll need a well-ran international search engine optimization (SEO) campaign.

However, Bill Hunt of SearchEngineWatch points out, there are many pitfalls that have to be avoided whenever an international SEO campaign is being designed. One of the major difficulties in running an international SEO campaign is linguistic differences.

Hunt cited an example of a company that decided to target the Latin American market. In doing so, the company published 20 different versions of one content sample.

The most important thing to watch out for here is the language use. According to experts, some diacritical marks and accents, which do not appear in English, can heavily influence SEO in languages like French, Spanish, and German.

In crafting an international SEO campaign, a company must pay attention to these small details or pay a bigger price, which is a lower search ranking.

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