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SES Video: Andy Atkins Kruger WebCertain

Lee Odden
Lee Odden
Interviews, Marketing Industry News, Online Marketing, Search Engine Strategies, Spotlight on Search, Video Interviews

Search engine optimization in English provides substantial challenges for most companies, but what about SEO in 20 different languages? When you drill down into it, there’s a lot “lost in translation” when most companies perform content optimization in different languages.

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In this video interview from the Exhibit Hall at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, my long time friend Andy Atkins Kruger of UK-based WebCertain takes a few moments to answer questions about multilingual SEO as well as some of the common challenges that come about when optimizing content not only in other languages but also dealing with corporate speak in those languages.

About Lee Odden

@LeeOdden is the CEO of TopRank Marketing and editor of TopRank's B2B Marketing Blog. Cited for his expertise by The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, he's the author of the book Optimize and presents internationally on B2B marketing topics including content, search, social media and influencer marketing. When not at conferences, consulting, or working with his talented team, he's likely running, traveling or cooking up something new.

Comments

  1. Ayat says

    August 22, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    I can imagine that translating keywords from one language to the next can be quite challenging. But to take on SEO for 20 languages is quite an accomplishment! I would imagine though that SEO is more common amongst English speaking websites…how popular is it amongst the other languages? Is there any resistance to accepting the concept in some countries?

  2. Nordic eMarketing Scandinavia says

    August 23, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    As always Andy is full of usefull information. It almost feels like I am there? Great post thanks for sharing this with us.

  3. Nordic eMarketing Scandinavia says

    August 23, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    Just to answer Ayat on “SEO is more common amongst English speaking websites…how popular is it amongst the other languages?” I can say that this is a popular and important in any languages be it my native tongue Icelandic or in fact any other. I can give you a good sample of translating a PPC from English to Icelandic having to fit 25 characters in a Google AdWords title can pose a problem. Title like “Great London Hotel Deals” is 24 characters but translated (trying to say the same) Icelandic is never going to be under 32 to 37 characters and if you try it in Finnish, well good luck… Check out http://www.multilingual-search.com for more on this topic.

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