tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25159705216156903522012-02-16T00:51:19.208-08:00Chinmayanoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2515970521615690352.post-40240614958263573622008-11-21T23:02:00.000-08:002008-11-21T23:03:10.473-08:00As a progressive business person with an up-to-date website, you may have already heard of and understand multilingual search engine optimisation (SEO). Or maybe not. Business professionals would do well to understand the benefits of having an internationally-visible website. Most of the worlds internet users 70 percent, in fact dont speak English. Based in Brighton, www.obanmultilingual.com is an international search engine optimisation company based in Brighton. Obans director, Greig Holbrook, sees massive potential for businesses going global. Internationally, there are many opportunities to be had, says Greig. Many countries are now seeing 60 to 70 percent internet penetration. Many have more penetration than the UK. The competition remains very low in terms of multilingual search engine optimisation, he continues, so the time to act is now. Multilingual SEO is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to international websites from search engines. To understand the process, we must first understand how search engines work. Search engines like Google send out spiders which crawl through the web. The spider reads a webpage, and follows its links to other sites. The spider records its findings in a giant index. The information in the index is then sifted through and ranked in order of relevance. How search engines determine these rankings is most important for multilingual SEO. Search engines look for a number of things when ranking, such as location and frequency of keywords on the page, and links to that page. Its crucial to understand that people often prefer to search in their own language, using local search engines. Despite Google being the biggest player in the English-speaking world, says Greig, local search engines in many countries continue to dominate and even grow their market share. Optimising a site for international search engines involves improving the quality of the coding, presentation, structure, content, etc., in the local language with cultural modifications and regional spellings of keywords in mind, to gain better rankings in the index. The idea of multilingual SEO is simple: webpages geared at specific regions are more likely to attract that regions local traffic. Optimising a site for international search engines involves improving the quality of the coding, presentation, structure, content, etc., in the local language with cultural modifications and regional spellings of keywords in mind, to gain better rankings in the index. The idea of multilingual SEO is simple: webpages geared at specific regions are more likely to attract that regions local traffic.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2515970521615690352-4024061495826357362?l=seo778.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Chinmayanoreply@blogger.com0