The document discusses international SEO and content silos. It provides tips for optimizing a website for international audiences and search engines. Key recommendations include using subdirectories or subdomains for different country/language sites to avoid duplicate content issues. The document stresses the importance of localizing content, keywords, design and usability based on the target international audiences. It also discusses how content silos can help search engines better understand a website's content structure and relevance.
2. • Physicist
• Headed up Global Marketing and
Intelligence Teams
• Founded CreatorSEO, Intelligence
Market and Research and Experts
• Head office in Smithstown, Shannon
•Specialise in helping businesses grow
internationally
7. It All Starts With Strategy
• Which market?
• Which country or
countries?
• Focussing on a region?
• Emphasising particular
products?
Reach Act Convert Engage
Digital strategy:
Customer
analysis
Competitor
benchmarking
On-line partner
analysis
SWOT
Marker-place analysis:
Vision and
mission
Goal setting Analytics
Managing digital
marketing
Goals and KPI’s:
Segmentation and
targeting
Brand position and
value proposition
Engagement and
content strategy
Integrated
communication
strategy
Strategy:
8. search engines and social media
are the gatekeepers of your
Content visibility
9. If your not on page 1
of search results
you don’t exist!
Perception is reality
22. You need to think like Google:
Keyword relationships and
usage – close bonds between
keywords on each page
Date can be important –
most recent content
– if applicable
Predict what you are
looking for!
Phrases are unique
The intent of your search
– information open queries
- location matters
23. Unique content
Google likes unique content
Does your content on a PAGE
meet all the searcher’s
needs?
Are you better at giving the
searcher the information they
need?
25. A content silo is the
grouping of related
content around key terms.
These key terms are
topical grouped on areas
or themes.
These are implemented
on your website / digital
needs
Content Silos
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Make it easy for the search engines -
content silos
Google in particular want to have a
good understanding of your website’s
content.
- what your promoting
- how it is structured
- layout of content
Content organisation!
Traffic
SEO / User Experience
Content Silos
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Key term relevancy is based on a
page’s content as well as the
relevance of the entire website.
Content silos help provide relevance!
If you want to rank think of sections
rather than just a page.
Relevant Content
Traffic
SEO / User Experience
Content Silos
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• Silos
• Relevancy
• Consistency
• Amplify your content
Target the right audience with
the right content
– as per your digital strategy
– planned in your roadmap
Content Amplification
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Content Example – Google.co.uk ranking
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5
Ranking before process >500 201 306 432 >500
Implemented Silos & taxonomy 145 61 114 92 345
Relevancy - meta / content 86 39 51 44 74
LinkedIn engagement 52 30 64 37 49
Consistency – links / language 48 27 31 33 37
New relevant content (daily) 3 4 2 5 11
Get feed for your site:
john@creatorseo.com
35. Marketing
incl. SEO
Customer
Needs
Data
Growth Hacking
Analytics
Baseline
Create a dashboard
Perform AB Testing
Create interventions
Make changes
One Metric That Matters?
Talk to customers
Make more changes
Analysebeforeandafterchanges
38. Trading internationally
• What can be done?
• domains by country?
• main domain and subdirectories per language?
• sub domains?
• Geo targeting on Google
39. Trading internationally
• Best option domains by country
• creatorseo.com
• creatorseo.fr
• creatorseo.de
• but
• complicated to manage and coordinate
• one CMS for all or one per domain?
40. Trading internationally
• Sub-domains or Domain name alias
• us.creatorseo.com
• fr.creatorseo.com
• de.creatorseo.com
• Directories by country/language
• creatorseo.com/us/
• creatorseo.com/fr/
• creatorseo.com/de/
• One language, several countries
• creatorseo.com/es/
• mycompany.com/es-pu/ (Peru)
• mycompany.com/es-mx/ (Mexico)
41. Trading internationally
• Subdomains by country
• Search Engines consider subdomains almost a completely different entity than
their domain
• they don’t inherit most of the domain's relevancy
• Example of a sub domain
• http://spanish.creatorseo.com
• … but are a more integrated approach than having a number of unrelated
domain names
X
43. Trading internationally
• Directories by country/language
• Cheaper
• Less technical resources required
• Easier to manage and coordinate
• Directories contribute to increase the general relevancy of a domain
• Domain authority is consolidated
46. Before internationalising your site
• Market research
• Site performance
• SEO implementation
• Speed of site
• Number of pages on your site – CPU and Memory
• Language or Country targeting
• Localisation costs
48. Competition ---- Perception is Reality
• On-line competition may not be your traditional competition
• Different competitors in different regions
SEO is about beating your competition in the targeted geographies
49. Audience
• Know your audience
• Cultural
• In Mediterranean counties
- Internet use is driven more by social factors rather than anything else,
• where Nordic countries rely on the internet for more pragmatic, functional purposes.
• Language
• What are they searching for?
50. Keyword
Avg. Monthly
Searches World
wide(exact match
only)
Avg. Monthly
Searches US (exact
match only)
Avg. Monthly
Searches UK (exact
match only)
Avg. Monthly
Searches Canada
(exact match only)
Avg. Monthly
Searches Germany
(exact match only)
Avg. Monthly
Searches France
(exact match only)
Avg. Monthly
Searches China
(exact match only)
Avg. Monthly
Searches India
(exact match only)
hotels in dublin 49,500 1,900 18,100 390 590 110 10 90
dublin hotels 33,100 3,600 18,100 880 480 140 10 70
hotels dublin 18,100 590 6,600 170 1,000 390 10 10
hotel dublin 14,800 260 2,400 110 2,400 3,600 10 10
And that’s just English!
51. Local content
• Use local addresses and contact information
• Add local case studies/ testimonials
• with names and images
• Customise content for each country or market
• More relevant, increases local link building opportunities, and decreases duplicate content
• Currency
53. Basic requirements for any website
A web site is a bit like an advert!
• Clear purpose
• Easy to use / intuitive
• High impact
- you have only 4 seconds to impress!
• Optimised for visitors
• Target audience
• Easily found by the target audience
• Content must be dynamic and interesting
54. Design and usability
• Different countries prefer different design aesthetics
• Recreating your website in a different language may not be enough
• Get feedback on your site from locals in your target country
57. Duplicate Content and Languages
• Google and Bing have clearly said to keep one language on one URL.
- Proxied content
- Content served by a cookie
- Side-by-side translations
Can be very problematic for search engines to index a page in more than one language.
You want
1 URL = 1 language
58. Duplicate Content and Language Flags
• Hreflang tags are intended to ensure the correct localised page is seen by Google
• You can have multi-country targeted content in the same language.
- You need to combine hreflang tags + some localisation!
59. Ways to avoid Duplicate Content
• Use Hreflang tags
• Localised keyword optimisation
• Have local content … maybe testimonials
• Name, Address, Phone, Currencies, Google Business profile
• Localised HTML sitemaps
• Localised navigation and home page features that cater to specific audiences
• Localised images that resonate with the audience
• Obtain links from local links
60. Some Final Tips
• Create useful page titles
• Use informative URLs
• Provide relevant page descriptions
• Add your business to Google +
• Manage your site links
• Get a local mailing address
• Use a translator!
• Value proposition
• Call to action
• Speed
• User experience
• Relevant and most recent
unique content
Google shows search results based on
what's best for the user