This workshops was delivered to delegates in Truro by Nigel Barker on 6th July 2017 to help focus their international websites and help them to engage with relevant audiences.
2. Agenda
It’s a small world with big opportunities
Understanding your audiences
Mobile First
Aim global, think local
Which platform?
Break
Data, trends and analytics
International Optimisation
Getting and retaining visitors
Pub Quiz
7. Global/local trends
• Growing global audiences
• Internet penetration of India currently only 34%
…China 53%...still plenty of room for growth!
• Yet India has the fastest growing Facebook audience
(213m MAU…3x the size of the UK!)
• China: Weibo, WeChat, Youku, Baidu
17. For each persona, where do you
think they ‘hang out’ online.
Where do they get information?
What sites do they read?
Where do they shop online?
Exercise
18. What is the 3rd most
important question you
need to answer?
Question
24. Mobile first……. Today!
>60% of Search is mobile!!!
Rises to 82% in China ^^^
>50% of online purchases in UK are mobile!
^^^^Rises even further to 90% in China
for fashion and clothing!!!
25. Mobile first……. Today!
And your web designer designs for desktop
with mobile functions fitting into a three bar
menu? Seriously?????
WTF!!! – PMSL!!!
30. 50% of Search will be voice by 2020
60% of voice searchers have started this
year!
40% of adults use voice search daily!
Speech = 150 words per minute
Type = 40 words per minute
…..Voice for the future
36. • Google My Business
• NAP Data
– Name, Address, Phone number
• Localise content
– Content that talks to the audience
– Think International Personas
54. Country level TLD’s
ccTLD Subfolder Sub Domain
www.mysite.com www.mysite.com www.mysite.com
www.mysite.co.uk www.mysite.com/uk uk.mysite.com
www.mysite.fr www.mysite.com/fr fr.mysite.com
This is how Amazon do it!
55. Subfolders
ccTLD Subfolder Sub Domain
www.mysite.com www.mysite.com www.mysite.com
www.mysite.co.uk www.mysite.com/uk uk.mysite.com
www.mysite.fr www.mysite.com/fr fr.mysite.com
This is how Apple do it!
56. Subdomains
ccTLD Subfolder Sub Domain
www.mysite.com www.mysite.com www.mysite.com
www.mysite.co.uk www.mysite.com/uk uk.mysite.com
www.mysite.fr www.mysite.com/fr fr.mysite.com
This is how Wikipedia do it!
57. Tell Google (and Bing)
what you have done
<rel=“alternate” HREFLANG=“fr” href=“https://www.mysite.com/fr”
HREFLANG
59. International Optimisation
• Search engines (SE) are smarter than ever! Google
RankBrain is an AI machine…
• Almost all search results are personalised
• ‘Old school’ SEO stuff still matters (metatags, content,
links, urls etc)
• Depending on the source, Google has between 73-
90% of search traffic
• But Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex etc still account for
billions of searches each month…
69. • What is trending in Google search in Sweden right now?
• What are the top three sites on Google and Bing in both the
UK and France right now for:
– Electric Bikes
– Classical Guitars
– Wind Turbines
• What are the splits between mobile and desktop use for
April 2017 for the Google Merchandise Store?
• What was the bounce rate for the site for the same period?
• How many users in Paris logged onto the site for the same
period?
PUB QUIZ
Before we start I just wanted to show you some recent research that shows an internet minute in 2017…Social media is a large part of an internet minute…
Social media is a strong influencer in the world of e-commerce. Shares and recommendations of products or services help increase brand recognition, improve buyer trust, and drive sales. According to Hubspot, 71% of consumers are more likely to make a purchase based on a social media reference.
Mobile is more and more important. And I know we will talk about this more today. But think about how many times we check our phones…research tells us its around– 150 times a day
Spend around 177 mins on our phone a day – for about a minute at a time
We could call these brief snacking moments.
We don’t go online anymore. We live online. And this has had a huge impact on the growth of social media and how it influences behaviour, what we purchase and how we go about purchasing things…
Think about how you start the buying process? Where do you start now a days? If you want to buy a new bike? A new computer where do start looking? What do you use to start looking?
Google? Mobile Phone? Tablet? Ahead of making a purchase, more than half (53%) of consumers say their mobile is the most important device for research (Marketing Week.com)
This workshop today aims to be an introduction to social media advertising….to get you started and show you the process. To enable you to start talking to and influencing overseas customers… But it is not a quick win solution. You wouldn’t generally expect to put one ad up and get an immediate response with an influx of overseas visitors clicking on your advert.
It might take some time, some testing of different ad formulas or creative options to see which ads work best…then you might want to scale your ads to increase your results further. And all this is assuming you have all your ducks in a row to sell overseas…for example do you sell in multiple currencies, do you have international shipping options, are you set up for export duty and any compliance/regulation issues that may be relevant to your business and the market you are targeting…
Show of hands
The website is at the centre of your digital marketing
It is both driven by and informs social media strategies and campaigns
Mobile responsive or mobile compatible
80% penetration in Germany for adults with smartphone (46% tablet)
83% say constantly checking their phone and searching.
Make sure your mobile site not only works but works well
Design for mobile first not second. Assume they will be hitting the site via mobile.China – 82% of purchases on mobile rising to 90% for fashion
Take out your phone – and search for something
Google Home, Chromecast and Google shopping
Apple TV – Siri, Shopgate and even developers integrating Woo Commerce into Apple TVAmazon – biggest emarketplace – Alexa, Firestick
Brands and corporations have spend billions on ‘tone of voice’, branding and visual representation
Hands up who remembers a world where all websites were Times New Roman, or every typed document was courier?
Adobe Voco enables you to ‘simulate’ any voice – you speak into it for 20 minutes and it learns your voice – then you push in your text and bingo.At the time there was uproar – especially amongst my voice over friends who thought – that’s it – the end of the world.
Brands will in the future USE THIS technology – in as much as you get ‘web fonts’ and custom font kits you will see ‘voice kits’
HTML will change and voice codesets will be commonplace.
Right now we are stuck with Siri, Cortana, Alexa et al in the same way that we were stuck with Times New Roman or Helvetica
In Asia, with extended alphabets and languauges it’s easier to speak than to type
But we use voice in a different way. We use grammatically correct syntax. We look
Voice will continue to accelerate.
Asian markets – richer, more complex alphabets
We carry the keyboard round with us.
The biggest restriction for technology has been the physical keyboard
Remove that and we free ourselves more.
Machine learning techniques will make this more accessible and more conversational
Kubrik and Clarke foresaw this – in 1969 – intelligent – sentient virtual beings
Asminov 3 laws of robotics
Translate to the audience.
Translate to the audience.
Translate to the audience.
Wordpress and Drupal are open source
Wordpress powers 27.5% of the top 10 million websites worldwide
Drupal power 2.5% of the same
Wix is not open source and is ALWAYS hosted on Wix Servers
Drupal and Wordpress can be hosted anywhere
All have multi-lingual plug-ins
Wix sites can’t be seen by loads of regions in China due to the Great Firewall of China
Wordpress and Drupal can both be hosted in China and therefore visible as they both use standard php and there
Wordpress and Drupal are fully customisable – Wix is based on predefined templates
Drupal requires the most specialist knowledge
Wordpress has good levels of local support
Wix requires no knowledge at all
Wix DOESN’T allow HREFLANG (I will explain this later)– does allow multi-language but little localisation of content and deals with geotargetting itself as opposed to Google or Bing dealing with it – Squarespace, Weebly et al – all have the same issues for multi-lingual sites
Tracking and conversion pixels and tags
Facebook Pixel
LinkedIn Pixel
Twitter Website Tags
Ad words account – Keyword Planner tool
Compare search trends watch for peaks and troughs
Popularity of search terms
Mobile
User Flow
Overview
Date ranges
User Flow from Landing Page
Devices from Mobile
ccTLD Each country has its own uniquedomain
•Benefits:
–Domain can be registered and hosted in local country
–Increased trust factor leading to higher click-through rate
–Strong location signal to search engines
•Drawbacks:
–Increased promotional efforts required for all domains
–Purchase and maintenance cost of each domain
ccTLD Each country has its own uniquedomain
•Benefits:
–Domain can be registered and hosted in local country
–Increased trust factor leading to higher click-through rate
–Strong location signal to search engines
•Drawbacks:
–Increased promotional efforts required for all domains
–Purchase and maintenance cost of each domain
All hosted on one domain but folders split out country-targeted content
•Benefits:
–Cheaper to maintain one domain and one hosting account
–Shared authority of the main domain
•Drawbacks:
–Poorer location signal to Google
–Potentially lower click-through rates than unique country domains
All hosted on one domain but sub-domains split out country targeted content
•Benefits:
–Cheaper to maintain one domain and one hosting account
–Sub-domains can be hosted in local countries
–Somesharing of authority from main domain
•Drawbacks:
–Location signal still weaker than using unique ccTLDs
–Authority sharing shown to be weaker than sub-folder approach
<link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 974px)" href="http://m.asos.com/" />
Yandex – Russia
Yahoo – almost as big as google in Japan
Baidu – China
Naver – South KoreaBing has 21% of the share in USA
Search Engine Results Pages
Title – Keyword for the page message: Max 600 pixels - about 50-60 characters (no official length)Don’t Keyword stuff:Rule of thumb is Major Keyword (s) first – research is we scan first two words. NEVER lead with your Brand. You can end with your Brand howeverMeta Descriptions are about 160 Characters – These are an ELEVATOR PITCHStar ratings come from testimonials and star ratings ON YOUR SITE – plug ins such as ReviewTrust – As well as Google My Business, Trustpilot etc etc
The emphasis in the West is on readability
Me
The next slide shows you the one single thing you can do to guarantee traffic will come to your site
Different markets require different levels of investment
Start Small and build.
Scale budgets according to sales.
China – 20% of revenueGolden rule – NEVER send people to your home page – send them to interesting contentIn B2B NEVER try and sell them stuff when you first engage with them – it’s like asking someone to marry you on the first date!
You retain visitors through building trust and respect – it’s a relationship.