Munich: 

John Mueller of Google Switzerland announced at the International Search Summit last week the launch of a new hreflang attribute known as “x-default” — along with a number of tips of global website managers which we will cover today.

For those of [...]

Global: 

It sounds like something from a health ad. “1 in 3 will be affected by duplication at some point in their lives.” There’s no doubt that all SEOs have had to look at duplication and its impact in [...]

London: 

This blog talks a lot about the opportunities connected with expanding to other markets – but can it work the other way around too? Is it likely that your home market will be “invaded” by marauding businesses who do [...]

Paris: 

It’s all very well the international SEO community rattling on about Hreflang tags and the like — but if you’re a global marketer what are your real options?

Global SEOs face a daily conflict between their own internal politics [...]

Munich: 

Google has revised the advice it is giving to owners of international websites with regard to using canonicals and hreflang tags. Just a month ago, the International Search Summit in San Jose was advised by the Google team on [...]

Munich: 

Yesterday’s standing room only international SEO session at SMX Munich featured Johannes Müller of Google Zurich and one of Google’s most popular spokespeople, known in the forums as “johnmu.” In English, he typically goes under the name “John” [...]

Mountain View: 

Google has announced “New markup for multilingual content” which has sigificant consequences for anyone running websites in more than one language or in more than one country. This includes those with different versions for English for the US and [...]

Brussels: 

The Financial Times is reporting today that Dealreporter.com (a subscription service) has details of a 400 page document spelling out accusations from complainants to the EU related to abuse of the search engine’s commercial dominance in Europe.

The total list [...]

Moscow & Prague: 

Strategically a very significant step was announced in eastern Europe today — Yandex’s video search system is to power Seznam as part of a wider partnership agreement! The video search service is at videa.seznam.cz and has been re-developed [...]

Moscow: 

The leading Russian search engine Yandex, announced yesterday that its revenues had grown by 65% in quarter 3 compared with the previous year. With a turnover of 5.2 billion Rubles ($161.9 million Rubles) and a profit of 1.8 billion [...]

Istanbul: 

Since their highly successful IPO in May this year when Yandex’s shares increased in value 55% on day one and raised $1.3 billion, the speculation (especially from me) has not been when the company would launch into new markets — [...]