If you want your web marketing efforts to be as successful as possible in overseas markets, you need to think about properly localising your websites for the regions you are targeting. There are several issues to consider, including translation, country-specific domains and hosting, geolocation and SEO.

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Top Tips for Multilingual Marketing and SEO

I have been enrolled in the Market Motive social media online course for close to two months now.  Each week I have been given a social media topic and have been responsible for viewing a certain number of films which go into detail about the topic being taught.  There have been a wide range of social media topics such as a week dedicated to Twitter and another dedicated to Youtube.

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I Admit It – These Videos Taught Me a Few Social Media Tricks

I love Twitter for putting me into contact with really outstanding people (well, since I don’t have time for conferences, Twitter is my major source of valuable contacts). Today I am happy to feature the interview with one of the marketers who has always been someone I’ve looked up to. Geno Prussakov is a well-known affiliate marketing expert,  author and contributor to 3 books (including his bestselling “A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing”) and a number of industry’s magazines and journals, international speaker (most frequently appearing at  Affiliate Summits ),  blogger , educator, and award-winning affiliate program manager

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Interview with Geno Prussakov, Outstanding Affiliate Marketing Expert

As social media continues to grow at an exhilarating pace, it can become challenging for marketers to balance the time-consuming demands of today’s social media marketing landscape with their career’s core focus. Whether you’re a full-time social media marketer whose main responsibility is to manage social media campaigns, a brand-side marketer who dabbles in social media throughout the day, or a consultant who networks with others in the industry, it’s important to streamline your social media initiatives as much as possible, in order to save time & stay focused

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5 Ways to Maximize Social Media Marketing Productivity in the Workplace

Will Richmond over at VideoNuze published an interesting article yesterday pondering some possible reasons for the meteoric rise in online video’s popularity in 2009.  The article starts with a graph that shows a jump of nearly 124% growth in total views last year.  The previous best improvement in one year was 2008… which had 46%

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Speculating on Reasons for Online Video’s Unprecedented Surge in 2009

When was the last time you read your own copy and set about cutting out any words larger than three syllables? It sounds like a drastic measure, but these days, even corporations are starting to see the light: words like synergy , sustainable and assessment are being sliced out in favor of more direct, simplified language.

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Short Sentences Sell: How to Make a Big Bang with Little Words

Clicker is an online video discovery service—essentially a TV Guide for finding video programming online.  Today they announced that they’d closed another round of financing ($11 Million), which speaks pretty highly of what the VC community thinks of their chances. I hadn’t heard of the service until a few months ago.  My family decided to go

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Clicker Wants To Be Your Web TV Search Engine – They’re Already Are Mine

You have proposals to write, meetings to attend, strategies to devise and posts to blog – where does building links work into your daily routine?  I want to know. If your work week is anything like mine, you probably don’t spend time building relationships with PR execs, journalists, bloggers, and webmasters across a mind boggling range of industries in the hopes that one day this relationship will results in a link for a client.  Many of the link building blog posts I read do promote relationship building in the real world to facilitate link oriented relationship building online, a logical strategy. But unless you are a full time link builder, I can’t see where SEO consultants have the time to do this.  The clear answer is have someone with link building knowledge do the work for you

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Is Link Building Worth Your Time?

Since I’m currently so into the Nexus One right now, exploring the nifty features of Google Buzz for mobile, let me follow up my previous post with another piece about Google’s mobile phone undertakings. This time, lets look into the recently released comScore report showing that trend in the smartphone industry from October-Deember 2009.

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Google Gains Smartphone Market Share Even without Nexus One

ReelSEO isn’t a gadget blog, but it’s staffed with people who are quite familiar with gadgets.  The news of the iPad from Apple is everywhere, and I think it’s a topic we can have some valid opinions on. Background:  I’m no Apple fanboy. I have no particular problem with Apple, nor any unexplained gravitation toward their products.

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The iPad and Video – I Want Some of What Apple is Smoking