You may want to consider building out an international presence to help your business grow for many years to come, but it isn't always easy – you have to deal with different time zones, languages, and cultures.
Searches can be conducted in eight languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Galician and Dutch. We are working to expand our relationship with other airlines, and bring Flight Search to more countries and in more languages...
Official studies put the number of languages spoken in India somewhere around 325, with 22 of those being recognized as official languages by the government. In the U.S.there are tens of millions of non-English speakers who represent a huge...
Seeing how people react to your work from different countries, cultures, and languages is very rewarding and insightful – and if you get good at it, your boss might just let you travel after all. When your potential business partner can only speak...
Facebook’s announced plan is to roll it out gradually to hundreds of thousands of individuals first (English only), then more broadly for PC-based users, then for non-English languages, and then on mobile.
The world is shrinking and with it the need to support content for more users means supporting more languages. Supporting multiple languages on websites is nothing new, but with browser and search engine technology starting to rely on structured...
Here’s what Cutts reported the impact will be on the following languages: of English queries will be noticeably affected.of Spanish queries.of French queries.of Italian queries. Google’s Penguin Update, originally known as the Web Spam Algorithm...
That’s relevant, for example, for global companies where the product pages are the same, but the links for finding the nearest store are country-dependent.project “Translation and Internationalization”] We revamped code for understanding which...
This update affects about 2.4% of English queries to a degree that a regular user might notice, with a smaller impact in other languages (0.5% in French and Spanish, for example). After we wrote about the exact match domain (EMD) algorithm update...
The growth rates of various foreign languages also far outstrip the growth in English usage, which may be heading for saturation point. For a long time now English has served as the lingua franca, or common language, of the Internet.
The tool is now available in languages other than English to help webmasters from around the world build structured-data-enabled websites. Another confusing caveat is that the WMT Help resource has been updated to reflect the new tool name, but it...
DataPop are leading the charge in the ad copy arena; expect to see them branch out into other languages and even types of content as they further their technology. Right now they’re only doing this in English, though non-English copywriters should...
The approach is an investment, but also allows videos to be optimized for important keywords in other languages. The easy way to do it is to allow YouTube to generate the English transcript and edit in the UI if it is incorrect, which it usually is.
Using rel="alternate" hreflang="x" you tell Google what pages you want to appear to which searchers using x languages, and with regional variations in language. If you have regional pages in a variety of languages, or pages in the same language...
The accessibility and global nature of the Internet opens up a host of opportunities to help you get found by whole new markets, but there are a number of issues when it comes to marketing your brand across different languages.
The growth in online use of languages such as Chinese and Arabic far outstrips that of English. As you'll be dealing with foreign languages and possibly unfamiliar search engines, it's likely that you'll need the assistance of language professionals.
The web spam algorithm update will affect about 3.1 percent of English Google queries, but noted it would have a bigger impact in heavily-spammed languages, such as Polish. Google’s long anticipated over-optimization penalty is now live.
Portuguese, Dutch and Italian languages have been added to a classifier that detects pages containing error messages (a.k.a.soft 404s). English Spelling Correction: More accuracy on rare queries. This is an English-only feature.
Whereas the English net is bursting at the seams with content, the volume in other languages is still relatively low, giving your product a much better chance of being found in searches. Yet, international websites are a serious game and require...
Languages One other language update: Google users in Saudi Arabia can now choose to search in English. Google will now generate related searches by auto-detecting the language of the query (e.g.a user typing a query in French might see French query...
